fastened to the earth with a hook or two, and covered with some fresh mould at a competent depth, will produce a great number of suckers, and thicken and furnish a copse speedily. The fruit, leaves, and catkins of this tree are very commonly found in peat mosses, and in the alluvial accumulations in the bottoms of valleys, having but little fall, and on the flat shores of lakes. In the alluvial flats in the valleys of Derbyshire, &c., hazel-nuts, &c., are very common in layers, between the silt and gravel. Woodward, in his Catalogue of Fossils, mentions nuts being found in Milnclose mine, which doubtless fell or were washed into opens from the surface; and on the whole it seems clear, that all these belong to the class of peat fossils, and are preserved in the most modern of the earthy deposits or accumulations.

HAZEL EARTH, or HAZLEY EARTH, a kind of red loam, which is said to be an excellent mixture with other sorts of earth; uniting what is too loose, cooling what is too hot, and gently retaining the moisture.

HAZEL, WITCH. See HAMAMELIS, and UL

MUS.

HAZEL DIVINING RODS. We have glanced at this subject more than once. See BAGVETTE DIVINATOIRE, and DIVINING RODS. The fact is, that, in compiling both the foregoing articles, we obscurely recollected having seen a narrative on the subject, which we are at last able to present to our readers. It is from a note in the Quarterly Review. The narrative has been lately communicated to us,' says the writer, by a friend residing in Norfolk, and puts the subject in the clearest point of view. We shall simply state that the parties, whose names are well known to many of our readers, are utterly incapable either of deceiving others, or of being deceived themselves.

January 21st, 1818.-It is just fifty years since lady N's attention was first called to this subject; she was then sixteen years old, and was on a visit with her family at a château in Provence, the owner of which wanted to find a spring to supply his house, and for that purpose had sent for a peasant, who could do so with a twig. The English party ridiculed the idea, but still agreed to accompany the man, who, after walking some way, pronounced that he had arrived at the object of his search, and they accordingly dug and found him correct. -He was quite an uneducated man, and could give no account of the faculty in him, or of the means which he employed, but many others, he said, could do the same.

divining rod is treated as absurd (vol. iv. p. 2607), she wrote a long letter to him, signed X. Y. Z., stating the facts which she knew. The D answered it, begging further information; lady N. wrote again, and he, in his second letter, requested the name of his correspondent: that lady N. also gave.

A few years afterwards she went, at Dr. Hutton's particular request, to see him at Woolwich, and she then showed him the experiment, and discovered a spring in a field which he had lately bought near the New College, then building. This same field he has since sold to the college, and for a larger price in consequence of the spring.

Lady N. this morning shewed the experiment to lord G., Mr. S., and me, in the park at W. She took a thin forked hazel twig, about sixteen inches long, and held it by the end, the joint pointing downwards. When she came to a place where water was under the ground, the twig immediately bent, and the motion was more or less rapid as she approached or withdrew from the spring. When just over it, the twig turned so quick as to snap, breaking near her fingers, which by pressing it were indented, and heated, and almost blistered; a degree of agitation was also visible in her face. When she first made the experiment, she says, this agitation was great: and to this hour she cannot wholly divest herself of it, though it gradually decreases. She repeated the trial several times in different parts of the park, and her statements were always accurate. Among those persons in England who have the same faculty, she says, she never knew it so strong in any as in Sir C. H. and Miss F. It is extraordinary that no effect is produced at a well or ditch, or where earth does not interpose between the twig and the water. The exercise of the faculty is independent of any volition.'

'So far our narrator, in whom, we repeat, the most implicit confidence may be placed. The faculty so inherent in certain persons is evidently the same with that of the Spanish Zahories, though the latter do not employ the hazel twig.' HE. Pronoun. Gen. him; plur. they; gen. them. Dut. hy; Sax. pe. It seems to have borrowed the plural from dir, plural dar, dative Dirum. The man that was named before.

All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar.
Shakspeare.

If much you note him,
You shall offend him, and increase his passion;
Feed and regard him not.
Id.

I am weary of this moon; would he would change. Id. Adam spoke;

and, on her return to England, she often exerted it, though in studious concealment. She was afraid lest she should be ridiculed, or should, perhaps, get the name of a witch, and in either case she thought that she should certainly never get a husband!

Of late years her scruples began to wear away; and when Dr. Hutton published Ozanam's Researches, in 1803, where the effect of the

Milton.

Bacon: In the two last senses he is rather a noun than pronoun.

Sax. þeafod, þeafd; Belgic HEAD, n. s. houed; old English heved, whence, by contraction, head. The part of the animal that contains the brain, or the organ of sensation and seat of thought.

But now a litel while I wol bewaile, This Pompeius, this noble governour

Of Rome, which that fled at this bataille. I say on of his men, a false traitour,

His hed of smote, to winnen him favour Of Julius, and him the hed be brought : Alas Pompeie! of the orient conquerour, That Fortune unto swiche a fin thee brought. Chaucer. The Monkes Tule. Vein-healing verven, and head-purging dill. Spenser. Over head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade. Milton The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head.

Person as exposed to any danger or penalty. What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. Shakspeare.

Who of all ages to succeed, but feeling
The evil on him brought by me, will curse
My head? ill fare our ancestor impure. Milton.
O breast of pity void! t' oppress the weak,
To point your vengeance at the friendless head,
And with one mutual cry insult the fallen!
Emblem too just of man's degenerate race.
Somerville's Chase.

Head and ears. The whole person.
In giugling rhimes well fortified and strong,
He fights intrenched o'er head and ears in song.

Denomination of any animals.

Granville.

When Innocent desired the marquis of Carpio to furnish thirty thousand head of swine, he could not spare them; but thirty thousand lawyers he had at his service. Addison.

The tax upon pasturage was raised according to a certain rate per head upon cattle. Arbuthnot. Chief; principal person; one to whom the rest are subordinate; leader; commander.

For their commons there is little danger from them, except it be where they have great and potent heads.

Bacon.

Your head I him appoint;

And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him lord. Milton. The heads of the chief sects of philosophy, as Thales, Anaxagoras, and Pythagoras, did consent to this tradition. Tillotson.

Place of honor; the first place.

Notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them. Addison. Place of command.

An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them, could do nothing. Addison on the War.

Countenance; presence. Richard not far from hence hath hid his head. Shakspeare. Richard II. And never shew thy head by day or light. With Cain go wander through the shades of night,

Shakspeare.

Ere to-morrow's sun shall shew his head. Dryden. Understanding; faculties of the mind: commonly in a ludicrous sense.

The wenches laid their heads together.

L'Estrange.

Oh, says Reynard, never trouble your head, but leave that to me. Id.

Work with all the ease and speed you can, without breaking your head, and being so very industrious in starting scruples. Dryden.

The lazy and inconsiderate took up their notions by chance, without much beating their heads about them. Locke.

If a man shews that he has no religion, why should we think that he beats his head, and troubles himself to examine the grounds of this or that doctrine? Id.

When in ordinary discourse we say a man has a fine head, we express ourselves metaphorically, and speak in relation to his understanding; and when we say of a woman she has a fine head, we speak only in relation to her commode. Addison.

We laid our heads together to consider what grievances the nation had suffered under king George.

The ravishers turn head, the fight renews. Dryden. Resistance; hostile opposition.

Then made he head against his enemies, And Hymner slew. Faerie Queene. Sometimes hath Henry Bolingbroke made head against my power. Shakspeare. Two valiant gentlemen making head against them, seconded by half a dozen more, made forty run away. Raleigh.

Sin having depraved his judgment, and got possession of his will, there is no other principle left him naturally, by which he can make head against it. South.

Spontaneous resolution.

Id.

Prickly stubs, instead of trees, are found; Headless the most, and hideous to behold.

Since hearty beef and mutton will not do, Here's julep-dance, ptisan of song and show: Give you strong sense, the liquor is too heady; You're come to farce, that's ass's milk, already.

Id. You must disbrancn them, leaving only the summit entire it may be necessary to head them too. Mortimer.

Nor is what has heen said of princes less true of all other governours, from him that heads an army to him that is master of a family, or of one single ser

vant.

South.

HEAD OF A SHIP, an ornamental figure erected on the continuation of a ship's stem, as being expressive of her name, and emblematical of war, navigation, commerce, &c. Head is also used in a more enlarged sense, to signify the whole front or forepart of a ship, including ine column of water through which the ship passes bows on each side; the head therefore opens the when advancing. Hence we say, head-sails, head-sea, head-way, &c. See NAVIGATION, and SHIP-BUILDING.

HE'ADACH, n. s. Head and ach. Pain in the head. From the cruel headach, Riches do not preserve.

Sidney.

Nothing more exposes to headachs, colds, catarrhs, and coughs, than keeping the head warm. Locke. In the headach he orders the opening of the vein of the forebead. Arbuthnot.

At some dear idle time, Nor plagued with headachs, or the want of rhyme. Pope. HEAD'BAND, n. s. A fillet for the head; a topknot; the band at each end of a book. The Lord will take away the bonnets, and the headbands. Isaiah. HEAD'BOROUGH, n.s. Head and borough. A constable; a subordinate constable.

Here lies John Dod,

Father or mother, sister or brother, he never knew none;

A headborough and a constable, a man of fame,
The first of his house, and last of his name.

Camden.

This none are able to break thorough, Until they're freed by head of borough.

Hudibras.

HEAD'DRESS, n. s. The covering for a woman's head: any thing prominent on the head; resembling a head-dress.

Among birds the males very soon appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a

tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume, erected like a kind of pinnacle on the very top of the head.

Addison. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress: I have known it rise and fall. Id. If ere with airy horns I planted heads, Or discomposed the headdress of a prude.

Pope.

The HEAD DRESS, amongst the ancient Jewish, Grecian, and Roman ladies, as among ourselves, was various, according to the times, and the fluctuations of fashion. It principally consisted of their hair differently dressed. It was usually divided before, with a bodkin, into two equal parts; sometimes it was covered with a net, or put into a kind of purse, or tied behind in the form of a knot, or bound back and plaited with ribands. It was washed with great care; essence and perfumes were applied to it, and gold dust sometimes made use of as powder. Pearls and jewels made a part of their ornaments; and pendants were worn in the ears. To cover the defect of hair, perukes were made use of by the gentlemen at Rome. Otho had a covering of false hair.

HEAD'GARGLE, n.s. Head and gargle.

A disease in cattle.

For the headgargle give powder of fenugreek.

Mortimer.

The word is given; with eager speed they lace The shining headpiece, and the shield embrace.

Dryden.

This champion will not come into the field, before his great blunderbuss can be got ready, his old rusty breastplate scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. A reason for this fiction of the one-eyed Cyclops, was their wearing a headpiece, or martial vizor, that had but one sight. Broome.

HEAD'QUARTERS, n. s. Head and quarters. The place of general rendezvous, or lodgment for soldiers. This is properly two words. The horse made their escape to Winchester, the headquarters. Clarendon

Those spirits, posted upon the out-guards, immediately scour off to the brain, which is the headquarters, or office of intelligence, and there they make their report. Collier. From head. Dignity;

HEAD'SHIP, n. s. authority; chief place. HEAD'SMAN, n. s.

Head and man. Exe

cutioner; one that cuts off heads.

Rods broke on our associates' bleeding backs, And headsmen lab'ring 'till they blunt their ax? Dryden. HEAD'STALL, n. s. Head and stall. Part of the bridle that covers the head.

Now down with the grass upon headlands about, That groweth in shadow so rank and so stout.

Tusser.

An heroick play ought to be an imitation of an heroick poem, and consequently love and valour ought to be the subject of it: both these Sir William Davenant began to shadow; but it was so as discoverers draw their maps with headlands and promontories.

Dryden.

HEADLEY (Henry), B. A., an ingenious young poet, born at Norwich in 1765, and educated under Dr. Parr. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his degree. He published a volume of poems; several pieces in the Olla Podrida; and a curious work entitled Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, with remarks; in 2 vols. 8vo. He died at Norwich in 1788, aged twenty-three.

HEAD-MOULD-SHOT, in medicine, is a disease wherein the sutures are so closely locked together, as to compress the internal parts, the meninges, or even the brain. It is supposed to admit of no cure from medicine, unless room could be given by manual operation or a divulsion of the sutures. It is the opposite of the horse-shoe head.

HEAD'PIECE, n. s. Head and piece. Armour for the head; helmet; understanding; force

of mind.

'Tis done by some severals

Of headpiece exraordinary, lower messes Perchance are to this business purblind. Shakspeare. Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains. Prideaux. I pulled off my headpiece, and humbly entreated her pardon, or knowledge why she was cruel.

Sidney.

The stone, which the builders refused, is become the headstone.

HEAL, v. a. & v. n.
HEAL'ER, n. s.
HEALING, adj.
HEALTH, n. s.
HEALTH'FUL, adj.
HEALTH FULLY, adv.
HEALTH FULNESS, n. s.
HEALTHILY, adv.
HEALTH'INESS, n. s.
HEALTH SOME, adj.
HEALTH'Y, adj.

Psa. cxviii. 24.

Sax. pælan, from peel; Goth. halgan; Belg. heelen; Teut. heilen. To cure a person: to restore from hurt or sickness; the person or the means by which it is done; a cure: mild, gentle, assuasive. Health, freedom from pain or sickness as to the body; as to the mind, welfare; purity; goodness; salvation: also a wish for happiness, used in drinking: healthful, wholesome; salutary: healthless, weak; sickly; infirm; that

HEALTH LESS, adj.