Ezrahite and others, is celebrated for wisdom: (1 Kings iv. 11.) and, 3. Heman the son of Joel and grandson of Shemuel, or Samuel, a Kohathite, and one of the chief fingers, whom David set over that fervice. (1 Chron. vi. 31, 33.) Commentators are uncertain which of these three was the pfalmift; but we think the laft is the moft probable, not only from the time he lived in, and the office he held, but also from the genealogies of the other two pfalmifts, ASAPH and Ethan, being recorded in the fame chapter, immediately after the enumeration of his ancestors. HEMATH, or HAMATH. See HAMATH. HEMATH-ZOBA, the E. part of HAMATH. HEMATITES. See HEMATITES. HEMELAR, John, an eminent antiquarian, and canon of Antwerp, in the 17th century, born at the Hague. He wrote a work entitled, Expofitio Numifmatum imperatorum Romanorum á Julio Cafare ad Heraclium; which is very scarce, though it has had feveral editions. He died in 1640. HEMENGSTEDE, a town of Holstein. HEMEROBAPTISTS, a fect among the ancient Jews, thus called from their washing and bath ing daily in all feafons; and performing this cuftom with the greatest folemnity, as a religious rite neceffary to falvation. Epiphanius fays, they denied the refurrection in common with the Sadducees, and entertained fome other opinions of theirs. See SABIANS, N° 2. HEMEROBIUS, in zoology, a genus of infects of the neuroptera order; the characters of which are thefe: The mouth is furnished with two teeth; the palpi are 4, the wings are deflected, but not plaited; and the antenna are briftly, and longer than the breaft. There are 15 fpecies, principally diftinguished by their colours. They are named bemerobii from the fhortness of their lives, which, however, continue feveral days. In the ftate of larva they are great devourers of plant-lice, for which it has had the name of the lion of the plantlice. They are allo cannibals, and devour each other after their transformation. The eggs are born on fmall gummy pedicles, fpun by the infects from their abdomen. Thefe eggs are depofited upon leaves, and fet in the form of bunches. They have been taken for parasitic plants. In 15 or 16 days the larva attains to its full growth. With its fpinning wheel at its tail, it makes itself a fmally round, white, filky cod, of a clofe texture. In fummer, at the end of 3 weeks, the hemerobius iffues forth with its wings; but when the cod has not been spun till autumn, the chryfalis remains in it the whole winter, and does not undergo its final metamor. phous till the next spring. The flight of this infect is heavy: fome species have an excrementitious fmell. One is named the water bemerobius, because it lives moftly at the water fide. HEMEROCALLIS, DAY LILY, or lily afphodel A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the hexandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the roth order, Goronaria. The corolla is campanulated, with the tube cylindrical; the ftamina declining downwards. 1. HEMEROCALLIS FLAVA, the yellow day lily, hath ftrong fibrous roots, fending up large hollow keel-shaped leaves, two feet long, upright, leafless, firm stalks, two feet high; dividing at top in. to several foot-ftalks, each terminated by one large liliaceous yellow flower of an agreeable odour. Of this there is a variety called the HEMEROCALLIS MINOR, orfmall yellow day-lily. 2. HEMEROCALLIS FULVA, the reddish or copper-coloured day-lily, hath roots composed of ftrong fleshy fibres and large oblong tubes; radical, keelshaped, hollow, pointed leaves, a yard long, reflected at top; with leaflefs ftalks three or four feet high, and large copper-coloured liliaceous flowers. These have large ftamina, charged with a kind of brown-coloured farina; which, on being touched or fmelled to, is difcharged in great plenty all over the hands and face.-Both thefe fpecies are hardy, and may be easily propagated by parting their roots. (1.) HEMERODROMI, [from 'nusga, day, and de, courfe, &c.] among the ancients, were guards appointed for the fecurity of cities and other places. They went out of the city every morning, as foon as the gates were opened, and kept all day patrolling round the place; fometimes alfo making excurfions farther into the country, to fee that there were no enemies lying in wait to furprise them. (2.) HEMERODROMI were also a fort of couriers, who only travelled one day, and delivered their dispatches to a fresh man, who run his day, and fo on to the end of the journey. The Greeks had also these fort of couriers, which they derived from the Perfians, who first used them, as appears from Herodotus. HEMEROTROPHIS, [from nurga, Gr. a day, and go, food,] in antiquity, a measure of capacity, the fame with the choenix; fo called from its holding one day's food. HEMI, [from icus, Gr. half,] a word used in the compofition of various terms, fignifying the fame with femi or demi, half. (1.) HEMICRANIA, a fpecies of head-ach, (1.) HEMICRANY, Sfuppofed to be occafioned by a congeftion of blood in the veffels of one fide of the head. See § 2. (2.)*HEMIČNANY. mf. ['nuous, half, and gäviov, the fkull, or head.] A pain that affects only one part of the head at a time. Quincy. (1.) HEMICYCLE. n. S. ('AIR®.] A half round. (2.) HEMICYCLE, [of 'nuous, half, and xuxx☺, circle, a femicircle is particularly applied, in architecture, to vaults in the cradle form; and arches or fweeps of vaults, conftituting a perfect femicircle. To conftruct an arch of hewn stone, they divide the hemicycle into so many voussoirs; taking care to make them an uneven number, that there be no joint in the middle, where the key-stone should be. See BRIDGE, § 3; and KEY inverfe heart-shaped; the interstice of the divifions nectar-bearing. (1.) HEMINA. n. f. An ancient measure: now used in medicine to fignify about ten ounces in measure. Quincy. (2.) The HEMINA, in Roman antiquity, was a liquid meafure, which, according to Arbuthnot, was equal to half a wine-pint English measure; its contents being 2.818 folid inches. HEMIOBOLON, a weight often mentioned by the ancient writers in medicine, fignifying the half of the obolus, or the 12th part of a dram, i.e. 5 grains. HEMIONITIS, from hemionus, a mule.] in botany, MULE'S FERN; a genus of the natural order of filices, belonging to the cryptogamia class of plants. The fructifications are in lines decuffating or croffing each other. HEMIONUS. See Equus, N° IV. (1.) * HEMIPLEGY. n. f. ['nuove, half, and cow, to ftrike or feize.] A palfy, or any nervous affection relating thereunto, that feizes one fide at a time; fome partial diforder of the nervous system. (2.) HEMIPLEGY, HEMIPLEGIA. See MEDIHEMIPLEXIA, or CINE, 154, 798. HEMIPTERA, [from us, balf, and lepov, eving, in the Linnæan fyftem, the 2d order of infects, comprehending r2 genera, viz. the blatta, mantis, gryllus, fulgora, ticada, notoneca, nepa, cimex, apbis, chermes, coccus, and thrips; and a great number of species. See ENTOMOLOGY, INSECTS, and ZOOLOGY. (1.) HEMISPHERE, n. f. ['nμiotaigion; hemisphere, French.]-The half of a globe when it is fuppofed to be cut through its centre in the plane of its greatest circles. That place is earth, the seat of man; that light His day, which elfe, as th' other hemisphere, Night would invade. Milton. A hill Of Paradife, the highest from whose top The hemifphere of earth, in cleareft ken Stretch'd out to th' ampleit reach of profpect lay. Milton. The fun is more powerful in the northern hemifphere, and in the apogeum; for therein his motion is flower. Brown. In open profpect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth feems join'd unto the sky; So in this hemisphere our utmost view. Is only bounded by our king and you. Dryden. (2.) HEMISPHERE, in aftronomy, is particularly ufed for one half of the mundane fphere. The equator divides the sphere into two equal parts, called the northern and fouthern hemispheres. The horizon alfo divides the fphere into a parts, called the upper and the lower hemifpheres. (3.) HEMISPHERE is alfo ufed for a map, or projection, of half the terreftrial globe, or half the celestial sphere, on a plane. Hemispheres are frequently called planifpheres. (4.) HEMISPHERE. See GEOMETRY. (5.) HEMISPHERES, MAGDEBURG. See CoнESION, 5. HEMISPHERICAL. adj. [from hemifphere.] *HEMISPHERICK. Half round; containing half a globe. The thin film of water fwells above ́the surface of the water it swims on, and com. monly conftitutes hemifpherical bodies with it. Boyle. A pyrites, placed in the cavity of another of an hemifpherick figure, in much the fame manner as an acorn in its cup. Woodward on Feffils. (1.) HEMISTICK. n. [or hemiftiche, Fr. Half a verfe. He broke off in the hemistick. Dryden's Dufrefnoy. * (2.) HEMISTICK denotes alfo a verfe not completed. Of this there are frequent examples in Virgil's Eneid; but whether they were left unfinished by defign or not, is difputed among the learned: fuch are, Ferro accin&a vocat. Æn. II. v. 614.' And, Italiam non fponte fequor. Æn. IV. 361. In reading common English verfes, a fhort paufe is required at the end of each hemiftich or half verse. HEMITONE, in the ancient mufic, was what wę now call a half note or SEMITONE. HEMITRITEUS, [from 'nuicus, half, and reitai, tertian,] in medicine, a kind of fever, denoting the fame as femi tertian, returning twice every day. (1.) * HEMLOCK. n. f. [hemloc, Sax.] An herb.-The leaves are cut into many minute fegments: the petals of the flower are bifid, heart. fhaped, and unequal: the flower is fucceeded by two fhort channelled feeds. One fort is fome. times.ufed in medicine, though it is noxious; but the hemlock of the ancients, which was fuch dead. ly poifon, is generally fuppofed different. Miller. He was met even now, Shak. Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With hardocks, hemlock. -We cannot with certainty affirm, that no man can be nourished by wood on stones, or that all men will be poisoned by hemlock. Locke. (2.) HEMLOCK. See CICUTA and CONIUM. (3.) HEMLOCK DROP WORD. See OENANTHE, (4.) HEMLOCK, LESSER. See ÆTHUSA. (5.) HEMLOCK, WATER. See CICUTA, § III. HEMMAU, a town of Bavaria, in Neuburg. HEMMENDORF, a town of Lower Saxony. HEMMINGFORD, Walter DE, an English hiftorian of the 14th century. He was an ecclefiaftic in Gifborough Abbey, in Yorkshire, and wrote an English Chronicle, which comprehends the period between 1066 and 1308. He died in 1347. HEMODES, in ancient geography, 7 islands of Denmark, now called Zealand, Fuynen, Langlandt, Muen, Faifter, Lalandt, and Femeren. HEMOIPTOTON. See ORATORY, * } 219. (1.) HEMORRHAGE. n. f. ['aiμappaya; (1.) HEMORRHAGY. S hemorragie, Fr.] A violent flux of blood.-Great hemorrhagy fucceeds the feparation. Ray-Twenty days fafting will not diminish its quantity fo much as one great hemorrhage. Arbuthnot. (2.) HEMORRHAGY. See HÆMORRHAGIA. (1.) HEMORRHOIDAL. adj. [hemorrhoidal, Fr. from hemorrhoids.] Belonging to the veins in the fundament.-Befides, there are hemorrhages from the nofe, and hemorrhoidal veins, and fluxes of rheum. Rag. Embost Emboft upon the field a battle ftood Of leeches, pouting hemorrhoidal blood. Garth. (2.) HEMORRHOIDAL. See HEMORRHOIDAL. (1.)* HEMORRHOIDS. n. S. [aiμoppodes; be morrhoids, French.] The piles; the emrods. got the hemorrhoids. Swift. (2) HEMORRHOIDS. See MEDICINE, § 253, 719-727 (1.) HEMP. n. J. Lhanep, Sax. hampe, Dutch; cannabis. A fibrous plant of which coarfe linen and ropes are made. It hath digitated leaves oppofite to one another: the flowers have no vifible petals; it is male and female in different plants. Its bark is ufeful for cordage and cloth. Miller. Let gallows go for dog; let man go free, And let not hemp his wind-pipe fuffocate. Shak. -Hemp and flax are commodities that deferve encouragement both for their usefulness and profit. Mortimer. (2.) HEMP. See CANNABIS.-It does not appear that the ancients were acquainted with the ufe of hemp, in refpect of the thread it affords. Pliny, who fpeaks of the plant in his natural hiftory, lib. xx. cap. 23. fays not a word of this; but extols the virtues of its ftem, leaves, and root. In effect, what fome writers on the Roman antiquities remark, viz. that the hemp neceffary for the ufe of war was all stored up in two cities of the western empire, viz. at Ravenna and Vienne, under the direction of two procurators, called procuratores linificii, must be understood of LINUM or FLAX. (3.) HEMP, ANNUAL IMPORTS OF. The use of hemp is fo extenfive and important, that vaft quantities of it are annually imported into this and other kingdoms from those countries where it grows in greateft plenty, of which Ruffia is one. In 1763, the quantity imported into England alone amounted to 11,000 tons. Sir John Sinclair informs us, that in 1785, the quantity exported from Petersburg in Britifh fhips was as follows: Clean hemp 1,038,791 poods. Outfhot 37,382 Half-clean 18,374 Hemp-codile 19,251 1,113,798 Allowing 63 poods to a ton, the above quantity will amount to 17,695 tons; and fuppofing it to takes acres to produce a ton of hemp, the whole quantity of ground requifite for this purpose would amount to 88,475 acres. The annual import of hemp to Britain and Ireland in 1799 was estimated at 121,213 tons, which, at an average of L.40 per ton, amounts to L.4,848,520. This circumstance will enable the reader to form fome idea of the distress into which so many labouring manufacturers were thrown in 1800, by the edicts of Paul I. prohibiting the exportation of Ruffian produce to any part of this kingdom. (4.) HEMP, BOUNTIES AND DUTIES ON. The important uses of hemp, (§ 10.) and the fuperiority of that produced in Britain to other kinds, have rendered the culture of it an object of attention to government. Accordingly, in 1787, a bounty of 3d. per ftone was allowed on all the hemp raised in England; and probably with a view to encourage the growth of English hemp, duties 1 have been laid on that which comes from abroad. Dreffed hemp in a British fhip pays 21. 4s. per Cwt. import duty; in a foreign-one 21. 6s. 9d; and in both cafes a drawback of 11. 19s. is allowed. Undreffed hemplin a British ship pays 3s. 8d.; and in a foreign one 3s. 11d. In both cafes the drawback is 3s. 4d. The export of British hemp is free. (5.) HEMP, CHINESE, a newly discovered species of Cannabis, of which an account is given in the Philof. Trans. Vol. 72. p. 46. In that paper Mr Fitzgerald, vice-prefident of the fociety for encouraging arts, mentions his having received the feeds from the late Mr Elliot; which being fown, according to his directions, produced plants 14 feet high, and nearly 7 inches in circumference. Thefe being pulled in November, and steeped for a fortnight in water, were placed against a southern wall to dry. After this the hemp was found to separate eafily from the woody part; and fo great was the produce, that 32 plants yielded 341b. In confequence of this fuccefs, Mr Fitzgerald applied to the directors of the India company to procure fome of the feeds from China; which being obtained, the fociety were furnished, in 1785, with fome of the feeds, which were distributed to feveral of the members. Two of the species, tried by the D. of Northumberland, rose to the height of 14 feet 7 inches, and would even have rifen higher had they not been hurt by a high wind. The refult of Dr Hinton's experiments is related under the article CANNABIS. (6.) HEMP, CULTIVATION OF. See CANNABIS SATURA. In Italy hemp is generally cultivated, though the Bolognese only can pretend to any fuperiority in the management of it. It is there fown upon the beft lands, which are rich strong loams; and on which they are at all poffible pains to procure a fine friable surface. For manure they ufe dung, pieces of rotten cloth, feathers, and horns brought from Dalmatia. The plant, however, may be cultivated upon ground of every kind; the poorer land producing that which is finer in quality,though in fmaller quantity; whereas ftrong and rich land produces a great quantity, but coarfer. It does not exhauft the land on which it grows, like flax. A Suffex manufacturer, who writes on this subject in the Annals of Agriculture, informs us, that it may be raised for many years fucceffively on the fame ground, provided it be well manured. An acre requires from 9 to 12 pecks, according to the nature of the foil: the latter being the most usual, though a variation in the quality of the foil makes an alteration both in the quantity and quality of the hemp. An acre produces on an average 36 or 38 ftone. The fea fon for fowing it extends from the 25th March to the 15th of June. The feed ought always to be fown thin, not exceeding two bushels to an acre; and with a drill plough still less will anfwer. The male and female being distinct plants, of which the latter only produces feed, regard must be had to this circumftance. In Suffex the male and fe male are pulled together about 13 weeks after the fowing, but in the fens are often feparated. This laft method is recommended by the abbe Brulle, who directs that little paths fhould be made lengthwife through the field, about 7 feet diftant, to al low low a paffage for the perfon who pulls up the male hemp, from among the females, which require to ftand more than a month after, to ripen the feeds. The male hemp (or, as it is commonly but improperly called, the female hemp) is known to be ripe by the fading of the flowers, the falling of the farina fecundans, and fome of the ftalks turning yellow. After the whole of this kind is pulled, it must be manufactured, and ought to be worked if poffible while green; the hemp thus produced being much finer than that which is previously dried. The male hemp, however, is always in fmaller quantity than the female; and therefore, where the crop is large, it will be im poffible to work the whole as fast as it is pulled or cut. It is known to be ripe by the ftems becoming pale; but it must be remembered that hemp of any kind will be much lefs injured by pulling the plants before they are ripe than by letting them ftand too long. The female hemp being ftripped of its leaves, &c. (See 7.) will foon be dry for ftoring by the heat of the atmosphere, though fometimes it may be neceffary to use artificial means; but where thefe are used, the utmoft care must be taken, hemp when dry being exceedingly inflammable. The ftored or dried hemp must be fteeped and treated in every other refpect as if it had been green; whence it is evident that this operation ought never to be used but in cafes of neceffity. It is likewife impoffible to make hemp which has been dried previous to its being steeped fo white as that which has been worked green. With regard to the perfecting of hemp-feed for a fubfequent season, it would feem proper to fet apart a piece of ground for this pur. pofe; for M. Aimen, from 40 plants raifed in the common way, had only 14 lb. of feed, though the plants from which it was taken might be deemed fine; whereas, from a fingle plant which grew by itfelf, he had 7 lb. Some are of opinion, that by putting the clusters which contain the hemp-feed to heat and fweat, the quality is inproved as many of those seeds which would otherwife wither and die, may thus arrive at perfection. But this feems problematical, as there are no experiments which fhew that feeds, when feparated from the vegetable producing them, have any power of meliorating themfelves. (7.) HEMP, DRESSING OF. After the hemp is pulled, it muff be taken in large handfuls, cutting off the roots, (though this is not abfolutely neceffary,) the leaves, feeds, and lateral branches, being dreffed off with a wooden fword or ripple. It is then to be made up into bundles of 12 handfuls each, in order to be fteeped, like flax, in water. This, or fomething fimilar, is abfolutely neceffary, in order to separate the bark; which is properly the hemp, from the reed or woody part. In Suffolk, this operation is called water-retting; but fometimes it is merely expofed to the air, turn ing the hemp frequently during the time it is expofed. This is called de retting; but the former method is univerfally deemed preferable. Such hemp as is defigned for feed is feldom water-retted, though, in the opinion of the manufacturer already quoted, it would be better if it were fo. Dew-retted hemp is generally ftacked and covered during the winter; in January and Februa ry it is fpread upon meadow land, and whitens with the froft and fnow; though it is always much inferior to the other, and proper for coarfer yarns only. The length of time required for fteeping hemp is various, and a complete knowledge of it can only be attained by practice. In Suffolk it is ufual to continue the immerfion 4, 5, or 6 days; ftanding water is preferred, and the fame water will steep hemp three times during the season, but the firft has always the best colour. The abbe Brulle prefers clear and running water, especially if overhung with trees. The bundles are to be laid cross-wife upon each other, taking particular notice of the manner in which they lie when put in, that they may be taken out without difficulty. His time of steeping is from 6 to ri days; and it is much better to let it remain too long in the water than too fhort a time. The flendereft hemp requires the most foaking. The operation is known to be finished by the reed separating eafily from the bark. The next operation is to feparate the bark from the reed or woody part; and this may be done two ways, viz. either pulling out the reed from every ftalk with the hand, or drying and breaking it like flax. The abbe Brulle is very particular in his directions for this laft operation, which he calls REEDING, and which may be performed either in a trough under water or upon a table. The whole, however, may be reduced to the following, viz. preffing down the bundles either in the trough or on a table by proper weights, to keep the hemp fteady on the middle and top end. Then beginning at the upper part of the bundle, pull out the reeds one by one. The rind which remains will prefs closely upon the remaining unreeded hemp, and keep it more fteady; fo that 2, 4, or even 6 ftalks, may be taken at a time. The weight is then to be remov ed from the top, and all the pieces of reed which remain there, having been broke off in the former operation, are to be taken out. Laftly, the middie weight is to be taken off, and any fmall pieces which remain taken out. If the reeding is performed on a table, the bundle must be weeded frequently, though slightly; a continual dropping of water would perhaps be the best method. The hemp muft next be freed from the mucilaginous matter with which it abounds. This is done by pouring water through it, fqueezing out the liquid after every effufion, but taking care not to let the threads twift or entangle each other, which they will be very apt to do. The abbé is of opinion, that foft foap thould be diffolved in the laft water, in the proportion of 1 oz. to 3lb. of dry hemp, which contributes much to foften and render the hemp easy to drefs. Hemp is broken by machinery, after being steeped, in a manner fimilar to flax; but the inftruments used for this pur pofe in Suffolk are all worked by the hand. That which breaks in the operation is called shorts, and is about half the value of the long hemp. The beft water-retted hemp fells for about 8s. 6d. per ftone; the other kind from one to two fhilling lower. Beating is the next operation, which for merly was performed entirely by hand, (See BEAT ING, 8.) but now in moft places by a water mill, which raises 3 heavy beaters that fall upor it alternately; the hemp being turned all th while by a boy to receive the ftrokes equally. The finer it is required to make the tow, the more beating is neceffary. It is then dreffed or combed by drawing it through heckles formed like the combs of wool manufacturers, only fixed. Some times it is divided into 2 or 3 forts of tow, and fometimes the whole is worked together into one fort; the prices varying from 6d. to is. 6d. per pound. (8.) HEMP, HEIGHT OF. The ufual height of the plant when growing is from 5 to 6 feet. In Catalonia, they generally rise to 7; but in Alface, they are sometimes 12 feet high, and 3 inches in circumference. (9.) HEMP, KARLE and SIMBLE. See CAN NABIS. (10.) HEMP, USES OF. Only the coarfer kinds of hemp are employed in making cordage, the better forts being used for linen, which, though it can never be made fo fine as that from flax, is yet incomparably stronger, and equally fufceptible of bleaching both in the old and new way. Cloths made of hemp have also this property, that their colour improves by wearing, while that of linen decays. The English hemp is much fuperior in ftrength to that which grows in any other country. Next to it is the Ruffian, from which facking is ufually made, as it is fometimes alfo from the offal of the English kind, but none of the Suffolk hemp is ever made into cordage, on account of its fineness. A confiderable quantity of Ruffia fheeting is imported into England merely on account of its strength, and is much coarfer at the price than any other foreign linen. Hemp is alfo faid to poffefs a property as a plant which renders it almost invaluable; viz. that of driving away almoft all infects that feed upon other vegetables. Hence, in fome places of the continent, they fecure their crops from these mischievous vermin, by fowing a belt of hemp round their gardens, or any particular spot which they wish to preferve (11.) HEMP YARN, PRICES OF. Hemp, when completely dreffed, (fee § 7.) is fold to fpinners, who reel their yarn as follows; I thread. I lea. I fkain. 2 Yards make 40 Threads 20 Leas 3 Skains I clue of 4800 yards. It is next delivered to the bleachers, who return it bleached on receiving 20 or 21 clues for every 120 bleached. The prices of hemp yarn are as follow: In foul reproach of knighthood's fair degree, About his neck a hempen rope he wears. Fairy Q. Behold Upon the hempen tackle fhip boys climbing. Shak. Ye fhall have a hempen caudle then, and the help of a hatchet. Shakefp. I twitch'd his dangling garter from his knee; He wift not when the hempen ftring I drew. Gay. (1.) HEMPSTED, a town of Hertfordshire, among hills, upon the Gade, 7 miles W. of St Alban's. The church has a handfome tower with a tall fpire, and good bells. It was, in the time of the Saxons, called Henamfted, or Hean-Hemfted, i. e. High Hemftead, and in that of William I. Hemelampede. Henry VIII. incorporated it, and empowered the inhabitants to have a common feal, and a pye-powder court during its markets. It has one of the greatest markets for wheat in this county, 20,000l. a week being often drawn in it for meal alone. Eleven mills ftand within 4 miles of it. It lies 18 miles SW. of Hertford, and 23 NW. of London. Lon. o. 15. W. Lat. 51.47. N. (2-4.) HEMPSTED, 3 towns in Effex and Norfolk. (1.) HEMSKERCK, Egbert, THE OLD, a celebrated Flemish painter of drolls and conversations, of whom, though his works are much esteemed, we have no information as to the time in which he flourished, or the school in which he was taught. (2.) HEMSKERCK, Egbert, THE YOUNG, was the difciple of Peter Grebber, but imitated the manner of Brower and of the elder Hemskerck. He was born at Haerlem in 1645, but settled at London, where for a long time his works were exceedingly esteemed, though now much funk in their value. He died in 1704. (3.) HEMSKERCK, or Martin, an eminent (3) HEMSKIRK.} Dutch painter, born at Hemikirk, (N° 4.) in 1498, and educated at Rome. He fettled at Haerlem, where he died in 1574, aged 76. His invention was fruitful. (4.) HEMSKIRK, a village of the Batavian republic, in the department of Amftel. HEMSTERHUIS, or Tiberius, a learned criHEMSTERHUSIUS, } tic, born at Groningen, in 1685. In 1704, he was appointed profeffor of mathematics and philofophy at Amfterdam; in 1717, profeffor of Greek and hiftory at Franeker; and in 1740, he filled the fame offices at Leyden. He published, 1. The 3 laft books of Julius Pollux's Onomafticon, in 1706: 2. Colloquies, &c. of Lucian: 3. Ariftophanes's Plutus; and other learned works. (1.) HEN. n. f. [benne, Saxon and Dutch; han, German, a cock.] 1. The female of a houfe-cock. 2. The female of any land fowl.-The peacock; pheafant, and goldfinch cocks have glorious colours; the bens have not. Bacon.-Whilft the hen bird is covering her eggs, the male generally takes his ftand upon a neighbouring bough within her hearing, and by that means diverts her with his fongs during the whole time of her fitting. Addif. O'er the trackless waste |