"1. Dignity; High rank." Titus Andronicus. Didit thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'ft me, That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolfey, Was dead? Shak. Hen. VIII. HO'P-BIND. n. The plant on which hop grows. It is made felony without benefit of clergy, maliciously to cut any hop binds growing in a plantation of hops. Blackfione. HOPELESSLY. adv. [from hopeless.] Without hope. Is your laft hope paft to mollify Morecraft's heart about your mortgage? Hopelefly paft. Beau. and Fletch. Scornful Lady. "HO'RNWORK. n. A kind of angular fortification. View with care the real fortifications of fome ftrong płace, and you will get a clearer idea of baftions, half. moons, hornworks, &c. than all the masters in the world could give you upon paper. Cheferfield. "To HORSE. v. a. Thus fpake the Goddess (on her painted skin Were figures wrought; and next calls hovia in; That for its ftony fruit may be defpis'd, But for its virtue next to coca priz'd. Tate's Cowley. “HOʻULET. n. The vulgar name for an owl." Adder's fork, and blind worm's fting, Lizard's leg, and houlet's wing. Out, thou houlet, Shaks. Macbeth. Thou should'ft ha' given her a madge-owl, and then B. Fonfon's Sad Shepherd. Thou may'ft be taken for fome far-country hozvlet. Shirley's Bird in a Cage. HOURS. n. pl. [heures, Fr.] Prayers for stated times of the day. The hermite, which his life here led In ftreight obfervaunce of religious vow Was wont his howres and holy things to bed. [** fay over.] Sp. F.2. B.VI. C.V. .35. "To HOUSE. v. a. The duty 3. To drive to thelter. That his ungentle hoft n'ote him appeach. Of vile ungentlenets or hofpitage's breach. Sp. F.Q. B.III. C.X. ft.6. "HOST. n. Such was that hag, unmeet to hoft fuch guests. Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.VIII. ft.27. HO'STLESS. adj. fhoft and lefs.] Inhofpitable. Who with Sir Satyrane, as earst ye red, Forth ryding from Malbeccoes hoftless hous, Far off afpyde a young man, the which fled Froin an huge geaunt. Sp. F.2. B.III. C.XI. ft.3. "HO'STRY. n. -- A place where the horfes of "guefts are kept." This interpretation feems to be merely conjectural from a fimilitude of found and letters. Spenfer ufes the word for a mean lodging. Only thefe marifhes and myrie bogs, E'en now we hous'd him in the abbey here. Shaky. Com. of Errors. HOUSE-BOTE. n. [house and bore, Sax. compenfatio.] Houfebote is a fufficient allowance of wood to repair, or to burn in, the house. Blackftone. HOUSEWIFELY, adj. [This word was poffibly meant to be inferted by Johnson; but in the firit quarto pofthumous edition (with which this Supplement accords) it is printed housewifery.] Taken from housewifery. &c." By this housewifely metaphor our ancestors meant to inform us, that the lands fhould be mixed and blended together, and then divided in equal portions. Blackfone. HŎU'SLING. adj. [from houfe.] Houfe-warming, This article is a most egregious blunder throughout, and fuch as could hardly have been expected from a learned commentator: indeed it favours of downright ftupidity. The word is derived from houfel, and means facramental—alluding to the Roman Catholic facrament of marriage. The paffage adduced from Spenfer manifeftly relates to a marriage-ceremony. It is here fubjoined more at length, than in Johnson. His HUN His owne two hands the holy knotts did knitt, F.Q. B.I. C.XII. ft.37. HO'YDENING. n. [from to hoyden.] Romping freedoms. Primnefs and affectation of ftyle, like the good-breeding of Queen Anne's Court, has turned to hoydening and rude familiarity. Gray's Letters. "HUDDLE. n. Crowd; tumult; confufion." In fome of our old dramatic authors this word feems to be used for The Commons do not abet humourfome factious arms; they aver them to be rebellious. Burke. HUNDRED-COURT. (n.) is only a larger courtbaron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. Blackftone. HUNDRE'DOR. n. A person of the fame hundred. Some of the jury were obliged to be returned from the hundred in which fuch vill lay; and, if none were returned, the array might be challenged for defect of hundredors. Blackftone. HUNTING. . [from hunt. v. n.] The diverfion of the chace. Hunting was the exercife of the greateft heroes of antiquity. Preface to Somerville's Chacè. HUNTING-NAG. n. A horfe to hunt on. He makes his ignorance país for refolve, and, like at hunting-nag, leaps over what he cannot get through. Butler's Characters. HUNTING-SEAT. n. A temporary refidence for the pupofe of hunting. Near it [is] a house built by one of the Grand Dukes for a hunting feat, but now converted into an inn. Gray's Letters. HUNTS-UP. n. [probably derived from the first words of an old ballad, The Hunt is up.'] The name of a tune. HYD No fooner doth the earth her flow'ry bofom brave Drayton. HU'RDEN. n. [from being made of hurds, or coarfe flax.] A coarle kind of linen. It is ufed adjectively, as linen, woollen, and words of that kind very frequently are. It is, when he is reaping, making hay, or when he is HURRY-SKU'RRY. adv. [a word formed to exhedging in his hurden frock. Shenfione. prefs its own meaning.] Wildly. Each hole and cupboard they explore, Each creek and cranny of his chamber, Run hurry-furry round the floor, And o'er the bed and tester clamber. HUSSA'R. n. A foldier in German cavalry: thence Gray's Long Story. ufed by the French, and fince by the English. You cry it down as bafe money, and tell them you will pay for the future with French guards and dragoons, and hufars. Burke. "HU'STINGS. n.---A court held." From the Sheriff's Court in the City of London, a writ of error lies to the Court of Hulings before the Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs. Blackfione. 2. The place where any election for a member of parliament is carrying on. To HUTCH. v. a. [from the noun.] store. To lay up in Milton's Comus. In her own loins She hutcht th' all-worshipt ore. "HYACINTHIN. adj. - - - Refembling hyacinths." Hyacinthin locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung. Milton. HYBERNA'TION. n. [from hibernare, Lat.] Period of winter. As fhould be very agreeable to the nature and conftition of the feveral plants, that were to pass their hybernation in the green-house. Evelyn HY'DAGE. n. A tax upon lands according to those portions of them which were called hydes. Of the fame nature with fcutages upon knight's-fees were the affeffments of hydage upon all other lands. Blackfone. HY'DRA-HEADED. adj. [from hydra and head.] Encreafing in means of ftrength. Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness, So foon did lose his feat. Shakspeare's Hen. V. "HYDRAULICKS. n. - -- - The science of con 66 veying water through pipes or conduits." definition feems rather too confined. Hydraulics has for its object the motion of fluids. -- This Adams. "HYDROMETER. n. An inftrument to mea"fure the extent or profundity of water." This definition is unphilofophical, the ufe of an hydrometer being to measure the specific gravities of fluids. Though the hydroftatic balance be the most general inftrument for finding the specific gravities of all forts of fubftances, yet the hydrometer is better to discover with eafe and expedition those of fluids. Adams. "HYDROSTATICS. n. The science of weighing "fluids." Robertfon. 2. [So called from meeting at a monaftery that had belonged to Jacobine Friars.] One of a faction in France that holds diabolical principles, and thinks it imeritorious to murder any one, whofe political opinions do not perfectly co-incide with their own. To be permitted to do this with impunity is their idea of liberty. They have, it feems, found out in the academies of the Palais Royal and the Jacobines, that certain men have no right to the poffeffions which they hold under law. Burke. JACOBINISM. n. The principles of a Jacobine. May the more recent fpirit of Jacobinifm have a ftill quicker termination. Mafon's Note to Ifis. To JACOBINI'ZE. v. a. To taint with Jacobinifm. France was not then Jacobinixed. Burke. JACOBITE. n. [from Jacobus, Lat.] A partifan of King James the fecond, after his abdication, and of his fuppofed male defcendants. The fum of all his policy had been to amufe the whigs, the tories, and the jacobites. Bolingbroke. Shipley. No Jacobite was ever a philofopher. JACOBITE. adj. [from the noun.]. Of the principles of Jacobites. The whole tory party was become avowedly jacobite. JA'COBITISM. n. The principles of a Jacobite. JA'DERY. n. [from jade.] Jadifh tricks. Seeks all foul means Of boiftrous and rough jadry, to diffeat His Lord, that kept it bravely. Two noble Kinfmen. IA'MBIC. adj. [from the noun.] Confifting of a thort and a long fyllable. feet (iambic, and An intermixture of thofe different trochaic particularly) into which our language naturally falls. J. Warton's Pope. JANE. ". A fmall coin of Genoa. JEA The first which then refufed me (faid he) Sp. F. 2.B.III. C.VII. A.5. "JANGLER. n. [from the verb.] A wrangling, chattering noisy fellow." 66 News-carriers, janglers, and fuch like idle companions. Brewer's Lingua. JANIVE'ER. n. [the old name for] January. I will fing what I did leere To Long ago in Janiveere. W. Browne's Shepherd's Pipe. And yet I bear a burden like an afs, Shak. Richard II. Johnfon produces this (and no other) paffage, as his authority for jaunt, having firft arbitrarily and filently altered jauncing into jaunting.] I'PIS. n. The name of a bird. ILL JEHOVAH. n. [Heb.] The Almighty. Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite Milton. Thy power. JE'OFAIL. . [law Fr.] The term by which an overfight in pleading is acknowledged. Mistakes are effectually helped by the ftatutes of amendment and jeofails: fo called, because when a plea der perceives any flip in the form of his proceedings, and acknowledges fuch error (jeo faille) he is at liberty by thofe ftatutes to amend it. Blackstone. JESUIT. n. [from Jesus.] One of a famous religious fociety of the Church of Rome. As Jefuits write, who never lie. With no canting, no fly jefuitical arts, Prior. Cambridge. Abstractedly from any religious view, which has nothing to do with the legitimacy, or illegitimacy of the Blackfone. IMBO AGED. part. adj. [from imbogare, Barb. Lat.] Clofe-pent. children. All the vacation he lies imboaged behind the lattice of fome blind alehoufe. Overbury. IMME'ASURED. adj. Out of measure. Bright Scolopendraes arm'd with filver fcales, 2. [Moft commonly in colloquial dialogue] Full of IMMITIGABLE. adj. Not to be mitigated. JE'SUITISM. n. The principles of Jefuits. As he feems to have laid the foundation of his difcourfe on fuch common notions as were affented to by all mankind, thofe who follow the fame method have no more regard to jefuitifm and popery, than those who agree with other jefuits in the principles of geometry. A. Sidney. Jetfam is where goods are caft into the fea, and there fink, and remain under water. Blackstone. I'FAITH. [an oath for] In faith. "JE'TSAM. n. Your gown's a moft rare fashion i'faith. Shak. Much ado. men. Did fhe mitigate thefe immitigable, thefe iron-hearted That freed from bands of impacablé fate Sp. Ruin of Time. Immoderate labour and immoderate fudy are equally the impairers of health. Warburton. IMPARTMENT. n. The act of imparting. As if it fome impartment did defire Shakspeare's Hamlet, "2. Vehemence of temper; heat of paffion." Shak. Hen. IV. P.I. Titus Andronicus. The fleering Scots Figmakers and chroniclers fhalf pick fomething out of Dekker's Honeft Whore. JILL-FLIRT. n. [a name of reproach to] A pert young woman. Well, fill-flirt, you are very pert. Congreve. ILL, fubftantive or adverb, is ufed in compofition "to exprefs any bad quality or condition." When the fubftantive is compounded, the compound word moftly wants explanation; becaufe the two words when feparated, feldom retain the fame meaning, which they have when joined. But this is not the cafe with compounds of the adverb; they only require explanation, when the fenfe happens to be altered by the composition. ILL-DOING. n. Doing ill. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. Ay me! deare lady, which the ymage art Of ruefull pity and impatient smart. Sp. F.2. B.II. C.I. ft.44- For fuch a bag, that feemed worse than naught,. Sp...Q. B.IV. C.IV. ft.10. Shakfp. Hamlet. A.I. fc.3. |