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 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, 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." 66 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 Thus [Iris] sayand with richt hand has scho hynt For now his hopes upon him came so thick, Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret. 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 } 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 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. 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. Gг. 'Inπокаμяоs, from inros, a horse, and κаμяn, campe, a worm, from каμπTEW, 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) Claudius Cæsar writeth, that in Thessalie there was borne an Hippocentaur, i. e. halfe a man, and halfe a horse; but it died the very same day.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 3. On euery side They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 25. A closter thei bigan, the bisshop tho that wrought The hyred seruaunte flyeth, because he is an hyred seruaūt, & careth not for ye shepe.-Bible, 1551. Ib. A man plauntide a vyneyerd and sette an hegge about it and dalf a lake and bildide a tour and hiride it to tilieris, and wente forth in pilgrimage.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 12. A certayne ma 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. HIRE, v. A. S. Hyr-an, hyr-can; Dut. 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. for agree 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. 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. Go from him, that he maye reste a lytle: vntil his daye 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; But your hir'd valour, were your faith reclaim'd, Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 3. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 6. A numerous faction, with pretended frights, 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. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. The superiority of the independent workmen over those servants who are hired by the month or by the year, and Vain man! is grandeur giv'n to gay attire ? Then let the butterfly thy pride upbraid: To friends, attendants, armies, bought with hire? It is thy weakness that requires their aid. Beattie. The Minstrel, b. ii. 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 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. The hirsute [root] is a middle between both [the bulbous and fibrous]; that besides the putting forth upwards and downwards, putteth forth in round. 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 HE, and HIM) was used without regard to distinction of number or gender; as her, its, their. (See THIS.) It is now restricted grammatically to the genitive case of he. And thoru nobleye that he was man of so gret fame ; That ilk gere the quene died in Lindseie, 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, Id. Ib. v. 3102. Let bring a cart-whele here into this hall, Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? 6 M HISS, v. Hiss, n. } 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. 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 hissing, [so that] euery one that passeth thereby, shal be astonished and hissc because of all the plagues thereof. Id. 1583. Jeremiah, xix. 8. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act i. sc. 3. HISTORY. HISTORIAN. HISTORICK. HISTORICAL. HISTORICALLY. HISTORICIAN. HISTO'RIFY, V. HI'STORIZE, v. HISTORIOGRAPHER. relation, the record of them. Milton. Il Penseroso. Davies. Hist! hold awhile: [hem, 'st, mane] I 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. 'Ioтopia, from iσTwp, science, knowing, or having knowledge; from ισασθαι, to know. Knowledge; (sc.) of things done, of deeds or facts; also the tale or narration of them; the So was his name, for it is no fable, 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, Id. Livirs, p. 230. 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. Such have been willing to look into Queen Elizabeth's reformation, and to satisfy themselves about it at the first hand, and not implicitly to depend upon the later historiographers of these matters. Strype. Life of Parker, Epist. Dedicatory. Thucydides, an Athenian, hath compiled the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, as managed by each of the contending parties. Smith. Thucydides, b. i. 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. To rescue from oblivion the memory of former incidents, and to render a just tribute of renown to the many great and wonderful actions, both of Greeks and Barbarians, Herodotus of Halicarnassus produces this historical essay. Beloe. Herodotus. Clio, c. 1. 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. 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. 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. In Spring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, He [the indolent man] is a drone in the hire 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. 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. -- Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. musty, fenowed, or vinewed. To whiten, to be or become grey; and, consequentially, mouldy, And thanne mette ich whith a man. on mydlentes soneday Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7764. 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. That ferryman With his stiff oares did brush the sea so strong, For time in passing weares, 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, B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 8. What grief, what shame, He [Lycaon] grows a wolf, his hoariness remains, And now the mounting sun dispels the fog; Thomson. Autumn. HOARSE. from the Lat. Raucus. Skinner thinks the words 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. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Goldsmith. The Traveller. Soveraigne it is for the dropsie and hoarsenesse of the And the hoarse nation croak'd, God save King Log. Tickel. Horace, b. ii. Ode 15. 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 cough. HOB. } Smith. Thucydides, b. ii. An awkward, clumsy, clownish fellow. The hobbes as wise as grauist men, Drant. Horace. The Arte of Poetry, Id. Ib. b. i. Sat. 10. Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act i -or otherwise, a Hee has not so much as a good phrase in his belly, but all old yron, and rustie proverbs! a good commodity for some 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 most notorious hobby-horse, jesting and striking in the luxury of his nonsense with such por fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hob-sail at a morris, but is more handsomely facetious. Milton. Colasterion. Come on clownes, forsake your dumps, The A. S. Hoppan, hoppetan; HOBBY. Fr. Hobin; It. Ubino. Skinner derives from the Dan. Hoppa, a mare. Serenius thinks that hobby, and the Dan. and Isl. Hoppe, have the same origin as hobble, (qv.) viz. the Ä.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. 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, hobby horsical and hobby-horsically, and seems, if not to have introduced, at least to have rendered popular, this met. usage. Hobblers, (Low Lat. Hobellarii,) so called, because they rode on hobbies. } HO'BBLE, v. HO'BBLE, n. 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 The same folly hinders a man from submitting his be haviour 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. |