Next to the bag of the stomacke, men and sheepe have the small guts, called lactes, through which the meat passeth: in others it is named ile. Next unto which are the greater guts that reach into the paunch: and in man they are full of windings and turnings.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 25. What then was our writer's soul? was it brains or guts, or rather nothing at all, when he thus maim'd and murder'd the sense of his author!-Bentley. On Free Thinking, § 53. They make good slaves when bought young; but are, in general, foul feeders. many of them greedily devouring the raw guts of fowls.-Grainger. Sugar-Cane, b. ii. v. 75, Note. You pass a narrow gut between two stone terrasses, that rose above your head, and which were crowned by a line of pyramidal yews.-Walpole. On Gardening. GUTTER, v. Fr. Gouttière; from the verb GUTTER, n. Esqouter, guttatim transfluere, to flow drop by drop, (Skinner.) More probably from Gut, ante, (qv.) That through which any thing flows or passes; now usually applied to a passage for water. Now stont it thus, that sith I fro you went Is through a gutter by a priuy went To conclude from hence, that air and water have both one common passage, were to state the question upon the weaker side of the distinction, and upon a partial or guttulous irrigation, to conclude a total descension. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 8. GUTTURAL, adj. Lat. Guttur, Fr. Gut- Of, or pertaining, or belonging to the throat. A skilful critic justly blames Hard, tough, crank, guttural, harsh, stiff names. It [Moorfields] was likewise the great gymnasium of our Capital, the resort of wrestlers, boxers, runners, and football players, and the scene of every manly recreation. Pennant. London, p. 346. But you must not think to discredit these gymnastics by a little raillery, which has its foundation only in modern prejudices.-Hurd. On the Age of Queen Elizabeth. A certain person left by his will, a fund for the establishment of the gymnastic games at Vienna. Melmoth. Pliny, b. iv. Let. 22. In Carian stee! Now Melibus from the gymnic school, GYMNO SOPHIST. Gymnosophista, yvuvo Swift. Directions for making a Birth-day Song. σopioral, because they used to walk naked Somerville. A Padlock for the Mouth. Be as be may, for earnest or for game Golden Boke, Let. 2. Their mortall natures, letting go safely by The diuine Desdemona.-Shakes. Othello, Act ii. sc. 1. Which with a blow, the cleeves in sunder crackt, Whence came so strong and rough a cataract, Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles, b. iii. The 28. day of Aprill, being her funerall day, at which time the citie of Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streetes, houses, windows, leads, and gutters, that came to see the obsequie. Slow. Queene Elizabeth, an. 1603. Stow'd bibulous above I see the sands, Thomson. Autumn. And 'tis the village-mason's daily calling, q. guzzler. As commonly applied, to guzzle is That senseless, sensual epicure, Jack bow'd, and was oblig'd-confess'd 'twas strange, GYBE. See GIBE. Gr. Γυμνάσιον, from And therefore, as gymnasium properly signifies the place A promontory wen, with grisly grace. When puss, wrapt warm in his own native furs, Butler. Dialogue between Cat and Puss. It [a toad] will eat blowing flies and humble-bees that come from the rat-tailed maggot in gutters, or, in short, any insect that moved. Pennant. British Zoology, vol. iii. App. 1. On the Toad. GUTTLE, v. As Galen reporteth, and Mercurialis in his gymnasticke Some are auctoσTepoi, as Galen hath expressed: that is, Sam. Have they not sword-players, and ev'ry sort Milton. Samson Agonistes. He [Alexander] offered sacrifices, and made games of mu- Πιτανατων ἑορτη, gymnical exercises at Pitana. As if any one should come into an house, the gymnasium, Over and besides, among the Indians be certaine philosophers, whom they call gymnosophists, who from sunne rising to the setting thereof are able to endure all the day long, looking full against the sunne, without winking or once moving their eyes: and from morning to night can abide to stand sometimes upon one leg, and sometimes upon the other, in the sand, as scalding hot as it is. Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 2. And even there, by report, there be those who follow a certain strict, austere, and naked profession of wisdom, called thereupon gymnosophists, holy men, living according to their own laws, devoted altogether to a contemplative service of God, making less account of this life than Diogenes doth, and living more barely, as having no need at all of bag and wallet.-Id. Plutarch." Morals, p. 1034. The method which Apuleius tells us the Indian gymnosophists took to educate their disciples, is still more curious and remarkable.-Spectator, No. 337. I mark'd where'er the Morosoph appear'd, GYPSY. Cambridge. The Scribleriad. Spelman, in v. Egyptiani, calls them a most nefarious kind of name (Egyptian) seems to have been for some reason assumed by themselves. The word is sometimes applied contemptuously for some ill quality; and sometimes playfully for some engaging quality. He like a gypsy oftentimes would go, All kind of gibb'rish he had learnt to know, As we were riding away, Sir Roger told me, that he knew several sensible people who believ'd these gypsies now and then foretold very strange things; and for half an hour together appeared more jocund than ordinary. A slave I am to Clara's eyes; Spectator, No. 130. Prior. A Dutch Proverb. Outlandish persons calling themselves Egyptians, or Gyp sies, are another object of the severity of some of our unrepealed statutes.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 13. The regicide Directory, on the day which, in their gipsey jargon, they call the 5th Pluviose, in return for our advances, charge us with eluding our declarations under evasive formalities and frivolous pretexts. GYRE, v. the Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. Fr. Girer, gire; It. Girare, giro; Sp. Girar, giro; Lat. Gyrus; Gr. Tupos, curvus, rotundus ; circular. Gyre, the verb, as Fr. "Girer, To veer or turn (with the wind,) Fashions in all our gesterings, Which (as the wise haue thoughte) do cum, Drant. Horace, b. 1. Sat. 3, Buche posters may be likened well vnto the carters oulde Of forayne worlde, on Mounte Olimpe Drant. Horace, b. i. Sat. 2. Till that she rushing through the thickest preace, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c 1. Pardon lady, this wilde straine, Common with the sylvan traine, That doe skip about this plaine: Elves, apply your gyre againe.-B. Jonson. Entertainment. When the sun so enters a hole or window, that by its Alumination the atomes or moats become perceptible, if then by our breath the ayr be gently impelled, it may be perceived, that they will circularly returne and in a gyration unto their places again.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 4. Thus a French top, throwne from a cord which was wound about it, will stand as it were fixt on the floor it lighted; and yet continue in its repeated gyrations, while the sense discovers not the least footsteps of that precipitate rotation. Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmalizing, c. 9. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres, Thus in one vast eternal gyre, Of melting tints eludes the visual ray. Sir W. Jones. Hymn to Bhavani. snare. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 342. We rendred then with safetie for our liues, Our ensignes splayed, and manyging our arm603, He that hath his feete in fetters, giues, or stockes, must first be loosed, or he can go, walke, or run to. Tyndall. Workes, p. 63. One hair of thine more vigour doth retain Drayton. England's Heroical Epistles I smile upon her, do: I will giue thee in thine owne courtship.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act ii. sc. I Heere is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper, if you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeeme you from your gyues. Id. Measure for Measure, Act iv. sc. 2. Har. Dost thou already single me? I thought Gives and the mill had tam'd thee. Milton. Samson Agonistes. These hands were made to shake sharp spears and swords, Whereupon they presently take arms, assail the Marshal's Inn, break open the gates, brought forth a prisoner in his Drant. Horace. Epistle to Quintius. gives, and set him at liberty.-Baker. Edw. III an. 1376 "H," says B. Jonson, "is rarely other than an aspiration in power, though a letter in forme." It is considered by Wilkins as a guttural vowel, i. e. formed by a free emission of the breath from the throat. НА. And therewithal he blent and cried, a', Prayse her, but for this her without-dore-forme, Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act ii. sc. 1. Leo. Ha, ha, ha, Beaum. & Fletch. The Humorous Lieutenant, Act iii. Those accounts which some of them have attempted to give of the formation of a few of the parts, are so excessively absurd and ridiculous, that they need no other confutation than ha, ha, he.-Ray. On the Creation pt. ii. Apparel, clothing; array, attire; a sute of apparel; also, armour or harness," (Cotgrave.) The whiche furnysshynge his people with all habylymentys of warre, made out of the towne, and pyght his feelde in a HABERGEON. Fr. Haubergeon; It. Usbergo; Low Lat. Halsberga, or Halsperga, which, Vossius says, is a Saxon word, signifying armour Minshew,—from the for the neck and breast, from hals, the neck, and playne ioynynge vnto it.—Fabyan, an. 1399. Ger. Habt ihr das, i. e. bergen, to cover, to protect, to defend, (De Vitiis, Skinner also prefers this have you that? or from the Fr. Avoir d'acheter, 1. ii. c. 9. p. 220.) And see Tooke, ii. p. 183, and i. e. to have to buy. etymology. Skinner, (whom Lye transcribes) runs far away. Serenius, - from HABERDASHER. Į HAWBERK. the Ger. Habe, goods or wares, and tauschen, either of plate or chain mail, without sleeves, Grose says the haubergeon was a coat composed (Mil. Ant. ii. 246.) But we that ben of the dai ben sobre, clothid in the haburion of feith, and of charite.-Wiclif. 1 Tessalonians, c. 5. to exchange; as if a haberdasher were an ex- haberdash. Clothe you, as they that ben chosen of God in herte, of misericorde, debonairtee, suffrance, and swiche maner of heres or habergeons.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale. It is in God to gyue us grace to disconfyte them, for they are but yuell armed, and we haue good speares, well heeded, and good swerdes; the habergyns that they beare shall nat defende them.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 414. HABIT, v. Fr. Habiter; It. Abitare; Sp. Habitar; Lat. Habitare, from habere, to have or hold, to keep. HABIT, n. HABITABILITY. HABITABLE. HABITABLENESS. HABITACLE. HABITANCE. HABITANT. HABITATION. Habit, n. applied to the HABITA'TOR. mode or manner of having HABITUAL. or keeping; the usual or HABITUALLY, customary manner; and, HABITUALNESS. thus, to custom, usage, faHABITUATE, v. shion; the custom, usage, HABITUATE, adj. or fashion, of dress; dress. HABITUDE. Habited, (in Chapman,) as we now use Habituated, i. e. accustomed, used, enured. To habit or inhabit; to have or keep himself; to dwell, to reside, to remain or abide. Habitude, also applied to the mode or manner, state or condition, of having or keeping; the relative state or condition; the relation A quest than wild he take of the monke that bare the coroune, His abite he gan forsake, his ordre lete alle doune. R. Brunne, p. 172. In whom als be ghe bildid togidre into the abitacle of God in the Hooli Goost.-Wiclif. Effesies, c. 2. And it is writen in the boke of Salmys, the abitacion of hem be maad desert and be there noon that dwelle in it. In many places were nightingales In thilke places as they habiten.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R. For none habite, in which I go.-Id. Ib. And also sette therto, that many a nacion dyuers of tongue and of maners, and eke of reason of her liuing, been inhabited in the close of thilke habitacle.-Id. Boecius, b. ii. He was out cast of mannes compagnie. And ete hey, as a best, in wete and drie. Id. The Monkes Tale, v. 12,222. Happely you may come to the citie Siberia, or to some other towne or place habited vpon or neer the border of it. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 435. There we stood in our habite bare-footed, and bare-headed, and were a great and strange spectacle in their eyes. Id. Ib. p. 109. Make, in purenes of mynde and spirite, vnto God an holye habitacle vnspotted from all synnes, and voyde of lustes. Udal. Ephesians, c. 2. Therefore the trouth is, that the habituall belief is in the childe, verye beliefe, though it be not actuall belieuing and thinking vpon the faith, as the habituall reason is in the childe very reason, though it be not actuall reasoninge and making of sillogismes.- Sir T. More. Workes, p. 732. She shall be habited, as it becomes Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act iv. sc. 3. Or is it Dian habited like her, Id. Titus Andronicus, Act ii. sc. 3. Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. v. The same daie the King created the Lord Thomas, Marques Dorset, before dinner, and so in the habite of a Marquess aboue the habite of his knighthoode, he beganne the table of knights in Saint Edward's chamber. Stow. Edw. IV. an. 1475. All sins are single in their acting; and a sinful habit differs from a sinful act, but as many differ from one, or as a year from an hour: a vicious habit is but one sin continued or repeated; for as a sin grows from little to great, so it passes from act to habit. Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 4. s. 2. For such vast room in Nature unpossest VOL... Millon. Paradise Lost, b. viii. ། O Hercules (quoth he,) what a small deale of the earth is our portion by the appointment of Nature, and yet see how we will not rest, but covet to conquer the whole world that is habitable.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 225. What art thou, man, (if man at all thou art,) Those argent fields more likely habitants, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. O what a mansion have those vices got, Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair Because opinions which are gotten by education, and in length of time are made habitual, cannot be taken away by force, and upon the sudden; they must therefore be taken away also by time and education. Hobbs. De Corpore Politico, pt. ii. c. 10. If a man sins often in several instances it is a habit, properly so called; for although the instances be single, yet the disobedience and disaffection are united and habitual. When a single act of sin is done, and the guilt remains, not rescinded by repentance, that act which naturally is but single, yet morally is habitual. Bp. Taylor. On Repentance, c. 4. Be persuaded therefore, as you have renounced it, in all its pomps and vanities, when you gave up your names to Christianity, so to renounce it likewise in your lives; habitually at all times, by sitting loose from it, and living above it.-Hopkins. Works, p. 18. The Vanity of the World. As the merchants, at the Isles of Zente and Cephalonia, told me (when I was there,) it was the custom of our English dogs (who were habituated to a colder clime) to run into the sea in the heat of the summer, and lie there most part of the day.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 36. So for all his temporary forbearance, upon some either policy or necessity, the habituate sinner hath not yet given over his habit. Leave him to himself, give him room and opportunity, and he will hold no longer. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 679. Having in that time call'd to his memory the presence of Sir George Villiers, and the very cloths he used to wear, in which at that time he seem'd to be habited, he answer'd him, that he thought him to be that person. Clarendon. Civil Wars, vol. i. p. 42. The Greeks call the confidence of speaking by a peculiar name, appnata; which power or ability in man, of doing any thing, when it has been acquired by frequent doing the same thing, is that idea we name habit; when it is forward, and ready upon every occasion to break into action, we call it disposition.-Locke. On Hum. Underst. b ii. c. 22. No Civil broils have since his death arose, Look round the habitable world, how few Of how infinite advantage it hath been to those two or three last ages, the great improvement of navigation and advancement of trade and commerce by the rendering the remotest countries easily accessible, the noble discovery of the vast continent of the New World, besides a multitude, of unknown kingdoms and islands: the resolving experimentally those ancient problems of the spherical roundness of the earth; of the being of Antipodes, of the habitableness of the Torrid Zone, and the rendering the whole terraqueous globe circumnavigable, do abundantly demonstrate. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. And an admirable provision this is for the perpetuity of the globe, and to continue the state and habitability thereof throughout all ages, which would otherwise waste and decay, or run into the most irreparable and pernicious dis. orders.-Derham. Astro-Theology, b. vi. c. 2. While we to Jove select the holy victim, Who slew the earth-born race, and measures right Prior. Callimachus, Hymn 1. The body moulders into dust, and is utterly uncapable of itself to become a fit habitation for the soul again. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 9. 953 Our indisposition [of devotion) itself is criminal, and, as signifying somewhat habitual or settled, is worse than a single omission: it ought therefore to be corrected and cured. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 7. Their hearts and affections are habitually fixt upon things here below; and therefore they will not attend to the force of any argument, that would raise their affections to things above-Clarke. On the Evidences, Prop. 15. But true perfection, and that which is possible and necessary for us to attain, consists, as has been shown, in these three things, in the uprightness, the universality, and habitualness of our obedience.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 144. Under a righteous and holy governour, who can never possibly be reconciled to wickedness, it is neither reasonable nor possible that men should be saved, who have never had any regard to truth and right, nor habitualed themselves to the practice of any virtue.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 126. Names being supposed to stand perpetually for the same ideas, and the same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another; propositions concerning any abstract ideas, that are once true, must needs he eternal verities. Locke. Hum, Underst. b. iv. c. 2. Connivance, to improve the plan, If we are in so great a degree passive under our habits, where, it is asked, is the exercise of virtue, the guilt of vice, or any use of moral and religious knowledge. I answer, in the forming and contracting of these habits. Paley. Philosophy, b. i. c. 7. We know that, after a certain period, polytheism and idolatry prevailed, through the greater part of the habitable globe.-Cogan. Theol. Disq. Dis. 2. Pref. Thee Lycia and Mæonia, thee, great pow'r, Lloyd. Hymn to Apollo. It [arson] is an offence against that right of habitation, which is acquired by the law of nature as well as by the laws of society. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 16. A state of happiness is not to be expected by those, who reserve to themselves the habitual practice of any one sin or neglect of oue known duty.-Paley. Philosophy, b. i. c. 7. The plump convivial parson often bears Cowper. Task, b. iv. And although from the text we may collect, that any one vice, habitually indulged, will as effectually exclude us from reward, and subject us to punishment, as if we had been guilty of every vice; yet the degrees of that punishment will be exactly proportioned to the number and the magnitude of the sins we have committed.-Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 15, The mind long habituated to a lethargic and quiescent state, is unwilling to wake to the toil of thinking; and though she may sometimes be disturbed by the obtrusion of new ideas, shrinks back again to ignorance and rest. Rambler, No. 103, In the Antigone, it [the chorus] is composed of old courtiers, devoted, by an habitude of slavery, to the will of a master, assembled, by his express appointment, as creatures of his tyranny, and prompted, by no strong movements of self-love, to take part against him. Hurd. Notes on the Art of Poetry To give force, strength; to strengthen, to empower and, as we now say, to enable. Habilitate,-Fr. Habiliter, to enable, and thus to qualify. And eke remember thine habilite May not copare with her.-Chaucer. The Court of Loue. To thentent that vnder the name and proteccion of such noble personages the said weorkes mighte be the better habled to the readers, and the better accepted of the people. Udal. Actes. Dedication to Quene Katerine. I cannot of my selfe promesse any hablenes to take suche a prouince in hande.-Id. Luke, Pref. For this benefite of God is not bestowed or geuen, eyther for the valuacion of substaunce and riches, or for the estimacion of kynred, or for the woorkes of the lawe, or for anyo other desertes or hablyng of mannes power.-Id. Ib. c. 1. The slender habilitie and substaunce as wel of Joseph and Marie bothe, as also of their aliaunce and kinsfolkes, was not vnknowen.-Id. Ib. c. 3. But the Cornish men inhabiting in the least part of the realme, and the same part also barreyn and wythout all pleasantnesse, complayned and grudged greatly, affirming that they were not hable to pay such a great somme as was of them demaunded.-Grafton. Hen. VII. an. 12. 6 F Because he was not of sufficient habilitie of himselfe to ensteyne and furnishe the warre, he determined to desire king Henry to take part with hym.-Grafion. Hen. VII. an.7. In the passage whereof [Acts of the Reuersall of Attaindors), exception was taken to diuers persons in the House of Commons for that they were attainted, and thereby not legall, nor habilitate to serue in Parliament, being disabled in the highest degree.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 12. For the things that we formerly have spoken of are but habilitations towards armes: and what is habilitation without intention and act?-Id. Ess. Of Kingdomes & Estates. Why does a man tender and regard his servant, but because he is for his use? The hability and aptness of the ereature for the serving of God's use, does induce God so far to preserve him.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 5. By the godly order now set forth by the Lord Mayor, those that be not of hability are sufficiently provided for in this case-Strype. Life of Grindal, b. i. c. 8. an. 1563. Thome the tynker, and tweye of hus knaves It semed as he had priked miles three. And his sonne sir William Winter that now is, and sundrie other capteins, hauing vnder their charge two hundred hackbutters.-Holinshed. Hist. of Scotland, an. 1544. A patent of license granted to Sir John Cheke, Kt. one of the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, to license at all times, one of his houshold servants, to shoot in the crossdeer, expressed in his patent. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 16,027. bow, hand-gun, hackbul, or demy hake, at certain fowls or In clothing was he full fetise, And loued well to haue hors of prise, He wend to have reproued be Of theft or murder, if that he Had in his stable an Hacknay.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. HAB-NAB. Hap ne hap; happen or not hap- hym all breders, hakney-menne, and skorsers. pen, (Tooke.) Pan. Is a not? It dooes a man's heart good, looke you what hacks are on his helmet, looke you yonder, do you see? Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 2. Whom not the prancing steed, nor pondrous shield, Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iii. That man who could stand and see another stripped or hacked in pieces by a thief or a rogue, and not at all concern himself in his rescue, is a traitor to the laws of humanity and religion.-South, vol. x. Ser. 8. [He] with the sweat of Mars was covered o'er, And his hack'd target stain'd with dewy gore. HACK, v. HACK, n. HACKNEY, U. Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. iii. Dut. Hackeneye; Fr. Hacquenée; Sp. Hacanea, haca It. Acchinea, acchenea, chinea. akinus, akineus, akinea, haquenée. Wachter, from the Ger. Nake, hnake, equus, a horse, (a nag) transpositis literis; and nake, from the A. S. Hnagan, hinnire, to neigh. A nag, hack, or hackney, was, thus, hors hnægend, a neighing horse; a lively, active horse, distinguished for its frequent neighing. And as this kind of horse was most frequently kept for hire, the name became applied, consequentially, to A hired horse, or horse let to hire; to any thing hired or let out to hire; and, hence, to a horse or any thing constantly in work or use; any thing constantly used. And the verb To use a hackney; to convey or carry, or ride in a hackney; to let out to hire; to toil, or work, as a hack; to use or practise frequently, or constantly; to accustom. Tille other castels about thei sent tueye & tueye, Such was the use then of stage-coaches, post-horses, and councils, to the great disappointment and grievance of the many: both men and horses and leather being hackneyed, jaded, and worn out upon the errand of some contentious and obstinate bishop.-Marvell. Works, vol. iii. p. 127. Boy. No Master, the hobbie-horse is but a colt, and your loue, perhaps. a hacknie. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act iii. sc. 1. Is't not a shame to see each hoomely groome Sit perched in an idle chariot roome, That were not meete some pannel to bestride, Sursingled to a galled hackney's hide! Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 6. I was the other day driving in a hack thro' Gerard street, when my eye was immediately catch'd with the prettiest object imaginable, the face of a very fair girl, between thirteen and fourteen, fixed at the chin to a painted sash, and made part of the landskip.-Spectator, No. 510. I accepted his kind offer, and immediately took him with me in an hack to White's.-Tatler, No. 15. Who, mounted on a broom, the nag In quest of you came hither post.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. Does from his hackney-lady suffer.-Id. Ib. You are a generous author; I a hackney scribler; you a Grecian, and bred at a university; I a poor Englishman, of my own educating; you a reverend parson, I a wag; in short, you are Dr. Parnelle (with an e at the end of your name) and I, &c.-Pope. To Dr. Parnell. Are-but farewell. for here comes Bob, Lloyd. From Hanbury's Horse to the Rev. Mr. Scot. Is hackney'd home unlacquey'd.-Cowper. Task, b. ii. In the broad, beaten turnpike-road Without Apollo by his side.-Churchill. The Ghost, b. ii. nied expression is so instant, that those, who are neither The necessity of preventing the tedium arising from hack capable of prescribing to themselves this rule of the callida junctura, or of following it when prescribed by others, are yet inclined to ape it by some spurious contrivance. Hurd. Notes on Horace's Art of Poetry. What charms can a London carman, chair-man, hackney lowest class, find in an English meeting or a church? but HACKLE, or HE'CKLE, V. HACKLE, n. Strype. Memorials. Edw, VI. an. 1552. Dut. Hekelen, to comb flax; hekel, a comb, from haeckel, a hook, haeckelen, to draw with a hook, (Kilian.) Skinner calls heckle (the noun) linifrangibulum, from the Dut. Hackelen, " to cut or hack into small pieces," minutatim concidere, and refers to the verb hack; and Lye explains the Eng. verb Hackle, or Dut. Hackelen, in the same words, and asserts it to be a frequentative of kach. To hackle seems to be,-to sever, separate, or sunder, (e. g. as flax in dressing.) The noun,a tool or instrument for the purpose; also applied (Jamieson) to "a fly for angling, dressed merely with a cock's feather, from its resemblance to a comb for dressing flax." Burke has revived the verb.-(met.) Some layde to pledge Theyr hatchet and their wedge Their hekell and their rele.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming. 2. This month also a plain hackle, or palmer fly, made, with a rough black body, either of black spaniel's fur, or the whirl of an ostrich feather; and the red hackle of a capon, over all, will kill, and, if the weather be right, make very good sport.-Walton. Angler, pt. ii. c. 7. The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces, and separated from all their habitual means, and even principles of union, cannot, for some time at least, confederate against her.-Burke. On the French Revolution. HACKSTER. Holland renders Grassatores, robbers and hacksters; probably from the verb to hack. Wherevpon, he disposed strong guards, and set watches in convenient places; he repressed those robbers and hacksters, he visited and surveyed the foresayd prisons. Holland. Suetonius, p. 53. Some such desperate hackster shall devise Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 4. HA'CQUETON. Fr. Hocqueton, or hoqueton, a (fashion of) short coat, cassock, or jacket, without sleeves, and most in fashion among the country people; at Court, a coat for one of the guard, (Cotgrave.) Written by Walsingham, aketon ; by old French authors, auqueton. (See Menage.) "Hocke, vetus Fland. Sagum, tunica militaris, Ger. Hockete," (Kilian.) I know not (says Skinner) whether said, quasi jacketon. And next his shirt an haketon, Chaucer. Rime of Sir Thopas, v. 13,789. It seiz'd in his right side, and there the dint did stay. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8. Wist, from wiss-ian to know; HAD I WIST. had I known. And thus ful ofte her selfe she skiereth, And is all ware of had I wist. Gower. Con. A. b. ii, This blindnesse is not of the eyes alone, coachman, fish-woman, and all the numerous tribes of the they would be delighted, and very powerfully affected, with the grandeur and solemnity of a Romish procession. Knox. Essays, No. 149. HACKBUT. Fr. Hacquebute, a haquebut, or HACKBUTTER. Sharquebuze, (Cotgrave.) A haR. Brunne, p. 278. quebuse, or arquebuse, (qv. particularly the quotation from Lodge.) See also Hagbut and Hagg in Jamieson. The 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6, regulates the length in stock and gun of the hag-but or demy-ward: a thing overbought, hath evermore repentance, (gử In the purchasing thereof [ground] be you nothing for haque; and sets forth who may keep and use malè emptum est, semper pænitet,) and had I wist, attending upon it.-Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c 5. Fettred on hakneis, to Inlond ere thei sent, On sere stedis it seis. For ich couthe selle Id. p. 335. Bothe dregges and draf. and drawe at one hole Hus weddyng to honoure Ac hakeneyes hadde thei none. bote hakeneyes to hyre. Id. p. 33. Wherevpon capteine Lamie and capteine Granestane were sent with two companies of hackbuts vnto the relieve of the lard of Johnstane.-Holinshed. Hist. of Scotland, an. 1583. His pallid feares, his sorrowes, his affrightings, Browne. Britannia's Pasturais, h. 1 s. 2 HA'DDER, i. e. Heather, heath, (qv.) By this meanes those Indian Brachmanni kept themBelves continent, they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks doe on kadder, and dieted themselves sparingly on one dish. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 542. HA'DDOCK. Fr. Hadot. If I had another elder brother, and say it was his chance to feed haddocks, I should be still the same you see me now, a poor contented gentleman. Beaum. and Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act ii. On each side, beyond the gills, is a large black spot, super stition assigns this mark to the impression Saint Peter left with his finger and thumb, when he took the tribute out of the mouth of a fish of this species, which has been continued to the whole race of hadocks, ever since that miracle. Pennant. British Zoulogy. The Hadock Cod Fish. HADE. Perhaps Head, head-lands. The thick and well-grown fog doth mat my smoother slades, And on the lower leas, as en the higher hades, The dainty clover grows.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 13. HAFT. A. S. Haft, from hæft-an, capere, prehendere, (Junius;) to take, to hold in the hand; and this (Skinner) from hubban, habere, to have. Tooke forms it thus, "Haved, hav'd, haft." "The haft of a knife or poniard is the haved part; the part by which it is haved, or held." But yet ne fond I nought the haft, Whiche might unto the blade accorde. Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Cit. O, if he had, I would have made rare hafts and whistles of 'em. but his shin-bones if they are sound shall serve me.-Beaum. & Fletch. Pkilaster, Act v. It has a haft. fit to hold it by in one's hand, to the end that it may not hurt the hand, whiles it presses upon the knife.-Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 1. HAFTING. Junius, Hafte, cessare; hafter, tergiversator; A. S. Haftan, tenere. Belgis, Hechten, hachten, haften, est apprehenderc, tenere, morari: to hold or keep, to stay, tarry, or delay. And thus, (met. )— To hesitate, to come to no decision, to say or act indecisively, inconclusively, insincerely. Whan was there more haftung and craftyng to scrape money to gether.-Udal. Ephesians. Prol. to the Reader. With these pernitious words iterated continually unto him, he grew enkindled, and (without any farther hofling or holding off) (sine cunctatione) delivered up all that was de maunded.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 275. (The Consuls themselves kept a hafling and flinching, (consules ipsos tergiversari,) and without all question, made but a score and game at their miseries.-Id. Livivs, p. 59. And the yonger sort of the Romanes, (without any hafling and drawing backe,) (sine detrectatione,) upon the proclamation gathered together.-Id. Ib. p. 237. HAG, n. HAG, V. HA'GGISH. Dut. Heks, hex; Ger. Here; Sw. Hera; A. S. Hagesse, hag. tesse; (Sp. Hechissera, hechizera.) HA'GSHIP. A hag, or witch, a furie or fiend, a woman-divell, (Somner.) Junius says, some derive from Hecate, others from hechen, mordere, Wachter, the A. S. Hægesse, from A. S. Eges-ian, to fear, to affright, to terrifie, to make afraid; and observes in confirmation, that a hag is also called egesegrimma, velut atrox terrore; grimma likewise being a name bestowed upon hags or witches. To hag,-to affright, to terrify, to scare. Hagged face, in Gray, "having the face of a witch, or hay," (Mason.) The goddes above are calm'd with verse, with verse the hagges of hell. Drant. Horace, b. i. Ep. 1. Nay, nay, the battayle now I leaue, nor me with feare affright Do any more your filthy foules, and hegges of Limbo low, And after him Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11. Mac. How now you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do? AH. A deed without a name. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Aot iv. sc. 1. (Saue for the son that she did littour heere, Fetch vs in fewel, and be quicke, thou'rt best The ape that looks pale at the sight of a snail, and flies as if he had feared lest that slow creature should overtake and devour him, would be a great deal less ridiculous than the timorous man, whose nature is thus hugg'd with frightful imaginations of invisible powers and a judgment to come. Scott. Christian Life, pt. ii. c. 3. s. 2. Can widows feed on dreams and wishes, Fenton. The Widow's Wile. She seem'd a beggar of the lowest tribe: And hay, and grass, and corn it yields, All to your haggard brought so cheap in; Without the mowing or the reaping. HA'GGASE, or HA'GGIS. Swift. Dr. Delany's Villa Minshew thinks is contracted from Hogges harslet, and he calls it "a kinde of pudding made of chopped porke flesh.' Haggis,-Scotch, derived by Jamieson from Huck. See his Dictionary. HAGGLE. i. e. to hackle or hack. Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iv. 8C. 6. His [Cardmaker's] lectures were so offensive to the Roman Catholic party, that they abused him to his face, and with their knives would cut and haggle his gown. Wood. Fasti, vol. I. HAGGLE, v. Cotgrave has Fr. "Harceler, HA'GLER. to haggle, huck, hedge, or paulter long in the buying of a commodity." See HIGGLE, and HUCKSTER. The ghostly prudes with hagged face Already had condemn'd the sinner.-Gray. A Long Story. HA'GGARD, n. Fr. Hagard, from vagardus, HA'GGARD, adj. (vagus, vagardus, hagard, (Menage.) And Skinner, wagard, a vagando; or from A. S. Hag, a hedge, because non domi, sed foris, horses, on which hagiers use to ride and carry their comDorsers are peds, or panniers, carried on the backs of (sc.) in sepibus agitat. Haggard, the adj., Skin-modities.-Fuller. Worthies. Dorsetshire. ner (who writes it hagger) thinks may be from the Ger. Hager, macer; or, as Wachter interprets it, gracilis, macilentus, or from hagard, the n., a kind of falcon. Turbervile, in his Book of Falconry, 1575, (cited by Mr. Steevens, in his note on the first passage quoted below from Shakespeare,) tells us, that "the haggard doth come from foreign parts a stranger and a passenger." And a French writer, quoted by Pennant, says, that hagar is a Hebrew word, and signifies stranger. Fr. Hayard, "wild, strange:" in English also applied to the countenance or features; spare and harsh, lengthened, distorted, with fatigue, with anxiety, or other strong feeling; and it may have been formed upon the preceding verb, to hag; thus,-Hay, hagger, haggered, hagger'd, or haggard. hunger, ravenousness. And the bird: Haggard; q.d. haggered (sc.) with For haggard hawkes mislike an emptie hand. Liue like a haggard still therefore, Gascoigne. Memoires. Turbervile. The Louer to a Gentlewoman, &c. As hagard hauke, presuming to contend If I do proue her haggard, Dryden. Theocritus. The Despairing Lover. How haggardly so e're she looks at home. A swarm of half-starved haggard flies, With furie seiz'd the floating prize. Id. Juvenal, Sat. 6, Yalden. The Fox & Flies. The falcon, the falcon gentil, and the haggard, are made distinct species, whereas they form only one. Pennant. British Zoology, vol. i. Lanner. HA'GGARD. Dr. Jamieson derives from Eng. Haw (qv.) and geard, sepes, sepimentum; q.d. an enclosed piece of ground. cheat his employer of twopence in a day's labour, as an Every man will haggle as long, and struggle as hard to honest tradesman will to cheat his customers of the same sum in a yard of cloth or silk.—Fielding. Voyage to Lisbon, But what then? always haggling and haggling. A man is tired of getting the better before his wife is tired of losing the victory.-Goldsmith. The Good-natured Man, Act i. Hail, the n. To hail— See the quotation from Locke. To pelt or patter, cast or pour down, hail; generally, to cast or pour down. Neithr hete ne hail, ne helle pouke hym greve Neith' fuyr nothr flod.-Piers Ploukman, p. 251. And leitingis weren maad, and voices, and thundris, and erthemouyng, and greet hail.-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 12. And there folowed lyghtninges and voices, and thondr inges, and erthquake, and much kayle.—Bible, 1551. Ib. I wept and I wayled, The teares down hayled, But nothing it auailed.—Skelton. Boke of Philip Sparow. And the Lorde so hayled in the lande of Egypte, that there was hayle and fire mengled with the hayle, so greuous, that there was none suche in all the lande of Egypte, sence people inhabyted it.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 9. For our admirall supposing some such assault, had prouided all our muskets with haile-shot, which did so gaule both the Indians and the Portugals, that they made them presently retreat.-Hackleyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 711. Hedys hopped undur hors fete, As haylstones done in the strete, Le Bone Florence of Rome. Ritson, vol. iil Now and then we feasted for it in the meane time; and that was when there fell any haile or raine: the haile-stones wee gathered vp, and did eat them more pleasantly then it they had bene the sweetest comfits in the world. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 163. For ere Demetrius lookt on Hermias eyne, |