There was mani a wild hine, that prest was ther to, & wende in to the Gywerie, & wounded & to drowe, & robbede & barnde hous, & manie of hom slowe. R. Gloucester, p. 485.

Ther n' as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, That he ne knew his sleight and his covine.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 605.

As when a sturdy plough-man with his hinde
By strengthe haue ouerthrowne a stubborne steare,
They downe him hold, and fast with cords do binde,
Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.
Let him use his harsh
Unsavoury reprehensions upon those
That are his hinds, and not on me.

Beaum. & Fletch. Spanish Curate, Act i. Having gathered together a number of slaves and hired hines, raised warre under the leading of Chrysus and Spartacus, and vanquished in plaine field, Cl. Pulcher a Lieutenant, and P. Varinius the Pretour.

The Romans had much adoe (so thrumbled they were and thrust togither disorderly) to defend and keepe the poupe and hind-decke; with that, another gallie of the enemies appeared on a suddaine and charged the hind-part. Holland. Livivs, p. 614. Even there the hindmost of their rear I slay, And the same arm that led, concludes the day, Then back to Pyle triumphant take my way. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. In their aurelia state, they have neither feet nor motion, only a little in their hind-parts.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. viii. c. 1. N. 5.

She [the Antelope] takes long yet quick steps with her hind feet, and moves her fore feet with agility.

Sir W. Jones. The Poem of Tarafa. Unless drive off the hindmost of the herd, he will reyou iterate his mischief.-Id. Ib.

Through the hollow, which lies between the hind parts of these two heads, that is to say, under the ham, between the hamstring, and within the concave recess of the bone formed by the extuberances on each side; in a word, along a defile, between rocks, pass the great vessels and nerves which go to the leg.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. s. 2.

At other times they are quite off the hinges, yielding them selves up to the way of their lusts and passions, and closing with every temptation that comes in their way.

Sharpe, vol. iii. Ser. 14. The brilliant actions of the Portuguese form the great hinge, which opened the door to the most important alteration in the civil history of mankind.

Mickle. The Life of Camoen. First, the head rests immediately upon the uppermost of the vertebræ, and is united to the hinge-joint; upon which joint the head plays freely forward and backward, as far either way as is necessary, or as the ligaments allow. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. HINT. Hint in G. Douglas (says Lye) is the Id. La Belle Dame sans Mercie. hent of Chaucer; and hent (qv.) he derives from Hend-an, capere, to take. And Tooke,-hint, something taken; the past tense and past part. of hent-an, capere, to take hold of. See PRIZE, ArPREHEND, &c.

Upon the noun-Hint, i.e. something taken, (or to be taken,) as an intimation, an insinuation, a suggestion, the verb to hint (met.) has been founded:

To intimate, to insinuate, to suggest; to allude or refer slightly to.

HINDER, v. A. S. Hyn-an, hindrian, imHINDERANCE. pedire, obstare; Dut. HindeHINDERER. ren; Ger. Hindern; Sw. Hindra; which the etymologists agree is formed from hind, post, retro, back, backwards.

To put or keep back or behind; to let, to stop, or stay; to obstruct, to impede; to prevent advance or progress; to prevent.

For Cassiodore sayth, that it is a manere sleighte to hinder his enemy whan he sheweth to don a thing openly, and werketh prively the contrary.-Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus. Thus hurts been of diuers businesse Which loue hath put to great hindrance.

My sonne of that thou hast me saide,
I holde me nought fully paide,
That thou wolte haten any man,
To that accorden I ne can,
Though he haue hyndred the tofore.-Gower. Con. A. b.iii.

But yet hym stant of me no fere, For nought that euer I can manace, He is the hindrer of my grace.

Id. Ib.

For there is no such losse of tyme, damage, hurt, or hinderauce towardes God. For we neither hurt nor hynder hym, although we neuer aske forgeueness but be damned perpetually.-Frith. Works, p. 15.

HINGE, v. Dut. Hinge, henge; Cardo,HINGE, n. from the verb to hang, because the door hangs upon it, (Skinner.) And Tooke,Hinge, that upon which the door is hung, heng, hyng, or hynge; the verb being thus differently pronounced and written."

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To hinge, i. e. to hang, is found in our old writers; to hinge, in Shakespeare, to turn or bend as a hinge; to hinge, (met.) to hang, to depend, to

turn.

Thys mater hynge in argument before the spyrytual iudges by the space of xv dayes.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 243.

By that well hinges a bacyne, That es of gold gude and fyne, With a cheyne, trewly to tell That wil reche into the well.

Be thou a flatterer now, and seeke to thriue
By that which has undone thee; hindge thy knee,
And let his very breath whom thou'lt observe
Blow off thy cap.-Shakes. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc.3.

Thus [Iris] sayand with richt hand has scho hynt
The hare and cuttes in tua.-G. Douglas. Eneados, b. iv.

For now his hopes upon him came so thick,
His entrance doors from off the hinges shook.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret.
But, to just men
Though heaven should speake, with all his wrath at once,
That, with his breath, the hinges of the world
Did crack, we should stand upright, and unfear'd.

B. Jonson. Catiline, Act iv. sc. 1.

If they finde a determinate intellection of any modes of being, which were never in the least hinted to them by their external or internall senses; I'le beleeve that such can realise chimæras.-Glanvill. Van. of Dogmatizing, c. 3.

Not long after Rogers was sent to the Prince by the Queen's express command, to understand for certain whe ther there were any design for invading of England, as he and Richardot seemed of late to give hints of.

Camden. Elizabeth, an. 1588.

Tru. O, now he's in his vaine, and bold. The least hist given him of his wife now will make him raile desperatly. B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act iv. sc. 2.

What real benefit, as I before hinted, can accrue to s from the insignificant niceties which these men trouble themselves so much about.-Tatler, No. 278.

I cannot without a double injustice forbear expressing to you the satisfaction which a whole clan of virtuosos have received from those hints which you have lately given the town on the Cartons of the inimitable Raphael.

Spectator, No. 244 He hath frequently taken the hint from very trifling ob jections to strengthen his former works, by several most material considerations and convincing arguments.

Nelson. Life of Dr. G. Bull.

Twenty years and more have now elapsed, since, in my sermon before the House of Lords, I hinted to the then Government the propriety of paying regard to the propagation of Christianity in India.-Anecd. of Bp. Watson, vol. ii. p. 225.

In 1723 was performed the Tragedy of Mariamne; to which Southern, at whose house it was written, is said to have contributed such hints as his theatrical experience supplied.-Johnson. The Life of Fenton.

HIP.

The first syllable of hyp-ochon

Byron. Beppo, s. 64.

Goth. Hups; A. S. Hype; Dut. Heupe; Ger. Huffte Junius thinks, perhaps, from hype, acervus, a heap, because in no other part of the body, Ywaine & Gawin. Ritson, vol. i. major est ossorum, nodorum musculorumque co

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HIPPISH.driacal.

I cannot forbear writing to you, to tell you I have been, to the last degree, hipp'd since I saw you.-Spect. No. 2:4.

Or to some coffee-house I stray
For news, the manna of a day,
And from the hipp'd discourses gather,

That politicks go by the weather.-Green. The Spleen.

I mean to go myself to-morrow Just to divert myself a little space Because I'm rather hippish.

HIP, v. HIP, n. HIP-HAPE.

cervatio. Stiernhielmius (in Wachter) from heb en, (A. S. Heaf-an,) levare, sustinere, because the hip sustains the whole body. To hip

To touch or otherwise affect the hip, to lame it. Hip-hape,—perhaps a covering for the hip. See HAP, to cover.

Johnson, in his note on the passage cited below from the Merchant of Venice, explains it as a phrase taken from the practice of wrestlers, Others derive it from hunting; the animal seized upon the hip by a hound is soon disabled.

HISS, v.

Hiss, n.
HI'SSING, n.

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A. S. His-cean, ahisc-ean; Dut. Hischen; Ger. Zischen, sibilare. All formed from the sound. Hissing is used to express contempt, dislike, condemnation, disapproval. And as in the example cited from the Bible - applied to the object hissed.

HISTORY.
HISTO'RIAL.

HISTORIAN.

HISTORICK.

HISTORICAL.

HISTORICALLY. HISTORICIAN. HISTO'RIFY, V. HI'STORIZE, v. HISTORIOGRAPHER. relation, the record of them.

Milton. Il Penseroso.

So was his name, for it is no fable,
But knowen for an historial thing notable.
Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,090.

These thinges to be true our prelates know by open histories as well as whe it is noone, the sun is flat south. Tyndall. Works, p. 398.

All the historial! partes of the Bible, be ryght necessary for to be redde of a noble man, after that he is mature in yeres. Sir T. Elyot. The Governovr, b. i. c. 11.

Among the Romayns Quintus Fabius for this qualitie [circumspection] is soueraignely extolled amonge historiens. Id. Ib. c. 23.

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.

Now wyll I shewe hystorycallye the forme and fashyon of that popysh vowinge, that it may be knowne dyuerse frō ye ceremonial vowes in ye scriptures.-Bale. Apology, fol. 21. Above proud princes, proudest in their theevery, Thou art exalted high, and highly glorified; Their weake attempt, thy valiant delivery, Their spoile, thy conquest meete to be historified. Sidney, Ps. 76.

As it is true, that he [Xenophon] described in Cyrus the pattern of a most heroical prince, with much poetical addition: so it cannot be denied, but that the bulk and gross of his narration was founded upon mere historical truth. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 2. s. 3.

He [Thucid.] setteth down historically, the kind and manner of this plague; as he might well do, having himself been taken with it, and oft in company with those who were sick thereof.-Usher. Annals, an. 3574.

John de Hexam and Richard de Hexham [were] two notable historicians.-Holinshed. Rich. I. an. 1199.

And such as be historiographers,
Trust not to much, in euery tatlyng tong,
And heerevpon our owne countrie actors and artificial
Nor blynded be, by partialitie.-Gascoigne. The Steele Glas. professours of this feate were called Histriones, of Hister, a
Tuscane word, which signifieth a player or dauncer.
Right well I wote, most mighty soveraine,
That all this famous antique history,
Of some th' aboundance of an idle braine
Will judged be, and painted forgery
Rather then matter of iust memory.

Id. Livirs, p. 230.
The mischief proceeded wholly from the Presbyterian
preachers, who by a long practised histrionic faculty preached
up the rebellion powerfully.-Hobbs. Behemoth, pt. iv.
The crisp'd, perfum'd, belac'd, befooled Wights,
Jetting in histrionick pride I saw.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. 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. s. 6.

I must historifie, and not divine.

Stirling. Domes-day. The second Houre.

In the beginning of this [the Peloponnesian] war, there flourished 3 noble historiographers, Hellicanus, of the age of 65, Herodotus, 53, and Thucidides, 40 years old.

Usher. Annals, an. 3573.

Towards Roma Triumphans leades a long and spacious walk, full of fountaines, under which is historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis in rarely sculptur'd mezzo relievo. Evelyn. Mem. vol. i. Tivoli, 1645.

Secondly, we have likewise a most ancient and credible history of the beginning of the world; I mean the history of Moses, with which no book in the world in point of antiquity can contend.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1.

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. Id. Ib.

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 here represented; the grounds, occasion, and method of their writing historically related.-Nelson. Life of Bull.

My first introduction to the historic scenes, which have since engaged so many years of my life, must be ascribed to

an accident.-Gibbon. Memoirs of his Life.

The obvious question (if each [the unbeliever and the advocate 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..

The beauties at Windsor are the Court of Paphos, and ought to be engraved for the Mémoires of its charming historiographer, Count Hamilton.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c I

Even the historian takes great liberties with facts, in order to interest his readers, and make his narration more delight ful; much greater right has the painter to do this, whe though his work is called history-painting, gives in reality a poetical representation of facts.

Sir J. Reynolds. The Art of Painting, N. 13. HISTRIONICK. HISTRIONICAL. HISTRIONISM. Plutarch and Livy.

For the origin of the word and its application, see the quotations from Vossius prefers the account

of the latter.

He who was of greatest reputation, and had carried the name longest in all theatres, for his rare gift and dexterity that way, was called Hister; of whose name all other afterward were termed Histriones.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 725.

Beaumont. Psyche, c. 20. When personations shall cease, and histrionism of happi ness be over; when reality shall rule.

Brown. Christian Morality, vol. iii. p. 24

of the histrionick art, he taught the choristers over which In consequence of his [Edwards's] love and his knowledge 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. Yitian, uttian, to out, to throw out; and, consequentially,—

to strike, to smite. To touch or reach the mark or object aimed at:

To hit or strike together; take the same aim, act in union, agree.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. Gon. There is further complement of leaue taking betweene France and him, pray you let vs sit [hi] together. Shakespeare. Lear, Acti. sc. 1. Cho. It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say. Harder to hit. Milton. Samson Agonistes. Their projects hitting (many a day in hand) That to their purpose prosperously had thriv'd, The base whereon a mighty frame must stand, By all their cunnings that had been contriv'd. Drayton. The Barons' Warı, b. iii.

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

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

nan yuell tyme of the night that woman is come hyder rouble vs.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 439. Ambassadors were sent to the cities of the hythermost

t of Spain vnto Acquitaine.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 80. hose things which haue been hitherto, although they e sufficiently grieued vs, yet will we let them seeme re tollerable: but this most malitious deuise, and those ch follow we cannot easily brooke. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 578.

irs, aduyse you well, for Sir Johan Chandos is departed Poicters, with mo tha CC. speares, and is comyng hyderd in great hast, and hath gret desyre to fynd you here.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 266.

hat which is eternal cannot be extended to a greater exor at the hither end it is quasi quid finitum. at the hithermost and concluding extreme, as I may call Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 124.

Thus we were made the bees of holy church, suffer'd to work and store our hives as well as we could; but when they waxed any thing weighty, his legates were sent to drive them and fetch away the honey.

Spelman. Dialogue on the Coin of the Kingdom.
As bees

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

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.

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.

South, vol. vi. Ser. 8. но. Like the Lat. Hoi, heu, eho, seems to HOA. be a mere cry or call, to arrest attenНон. tion, and the written word formed from the sound. 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.

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To whiten, to be or become grey; and, consequentially, mouldy,

And thanne mette ich whith a man. on mydlentes soneday
As hor as an hawethorn. Piers Plouhman, p. 314.
And yet ne greveth me nothing so sore,
As that the olde cherl, with lokkes hore,
Blasphemed hath oure holy covent eke.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7764.
And gan search, and seeke wonder sore
Emong the hils and the holts hore.

Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. i. But Nestor, whiche was olde and hore, The salue sawe tofore the sore,

As he that was of counseile wise.-Gower. Con, A. b. iii.