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HEXASTYLE, in architecture, a building with fix columns in front.

HEXBOLD, a small river of Northumberland, which runs by Hexam.

HEXAM, a town of Northumberland, with a market on Tuesday. It is feated on the Tyne, and was formerly famous for an abbey and church. one of which is now decayed, and a great part of the other was pulled down by the Scots. Near this place, in 1463, was fought a bloody battle, between the houfes of York and Lancafter, in which the latter was defeated. Hexam is noted for its manufactory of tanned leather, shoes, and gloves; and is 22 miles W. of Newcastle, and 284 NNW. of London. Lon. 2. 1. W. Lat. 55. 3. N.

HEXLEY, a town in Northumberland, NE. of Alnwick.

HEXTON, a village in Herts, near Luton. HEY. interj. [from high.] An expreffion of joy, or mutual exhortation; the contrary to the Latin bei.— Shadwell from the town retires, To blifs the town with peaceful lyrick; Then bey for praise and panegyrick. HEYDAU, a town of Silefia, in Neiffe. (1.)* HEYDAY. interj. [for high day.] An expreflion of frolick and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

la, a profelyte Jew, the firft edition of which he published in the 12th year of Adrian, or about A. D. 128; the 3d was that Symmachus, publifhed, as is fuppofed, under Marcus Aurelius, but, as fome fay, under Septimus Severus, about A. D. 200; the 4th was that of Theodotion, prior to Symmachus's, under Commodus, or about A. D. 175. Thefe Greek verfions, fays Dr Kennicott, were made by the Jews from their corrupted copies of the Hebrew, and were defigned to ftand in the place of the Seventy, against which they were prejudiced, because it seemed to favour the Chriftians. The fifth was found in Jericho, in the reign of Caracalla, about A. D. 217; and the 6th was discovered at Nicopolis, in the reign of Alexander Severus, about A. D. 228: laftly, Origen himfelf recovered part of a 7th, containing only the Pfalms. Origen, who had held frequent difputations with the Jews in Egypt and Palestine, obferving that they always objected to those paffages of Scripture quoted against themselves, and appealed to the Hebrew text; the better to vindicate those paffages, and confound the Jews by fhowing that the Seventy had given the sense of the Hebrew, or rather to fhow, by a number of different verfions, what the real fenfe of the Hebrew was, undertook to reduce all the feveral verfions into a body along with the Hebrew text, so as they might be easily confronted, and afford a mutual light to each other. He made the Hebrew text his standard; and, allowing that corruptions might have happened, and the old Hebrew copies might and did read differently, he marked fuch words or fentences as were not in his Hebrew text, nor the latter Greek verfions, and added fuch words or fentences as were omitted in the LXX. prefixing an afterisk to the additions, and an obelifk to the others. For this purpofe, he made 8 columns; in the firft he gave the Hebrew text in Hebrew characters; in the 2d, the fame text in Greek characters; the reft were filled with the fe. veral verfions above mentioned; all the columns anfwer in verfe for verfe, and phrase for phrase; and in the Pfalms there was a 9th column for the 7th verfion. This work Origen called Eara, Hexapla, q. d. fextuple, or a work of fix columns, as only regarding the first fix Greek verfions. See TETRAPLA. Indeed, St Epiphanius, taking in likewife the two columns of the text, calls the work Odapla, as confifting of 8 columns. This celebrated work, which Montfaucon imagines confifted of 50 large volumes, perished long ago, probably with the library at Cæfarea, where it was preferved in 653; though feveral ancient writers have preferved pieces of it, particularly St Chryfoftom on the Pfalms, Philoponus in his Hexameron, &c. Some modern writers have earneftly endeavoured to collect fragments of the Hexapla, particularly Flaminius Nobilius, Drufius, and F. Montfaucon, in two folio volumes, printed at Paris in 1713.

* HEXAPOR, 7. S. [1§ and wodes.] An animal with fix feet. I take thofe to have been the hexapods, from which the greater fort of beetles come; for that fort of hexapods are eaten in America. Ray. * HEXASTICK. n. f. [t and sixos.] A poem of fix lines.

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Thoul't fay anon he is fome kin to thee, Thou spend't fuch beyday wit in praifing him. Shak

'Twas a ftrange riddle of a lady, Not love, if any lov'd her, beyday! Hudibras. (2.) * HEYDAY. n. f. A frolick; wildness.At your age

The beyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. Shak HEYDECK, a town of Bavaria, in Neuburg. *HEYDEGIVES. n. f. A wild frolick dance Obfolete.

But friendly fairies meet with many graces, And lightfoot nymphs can chafe the ling'ring night

With beydegives, and trimly trodden traces. Spenfer HEYDEN, a town of Weftphalia, in Lippe. HEYDINGSFELD, a town of Franconia. (1.) HEYDON, John, who fometimes affume the name of Eugenius Theodidactus, was a grea pretender to skill in the Roficrucian philofoph and the celestial figns, in the reign of king Charle I.; and wrote a confiderable number of chemica and aftrological works, with very fingular title This ridiculous author was much reforted to b the duke of Buckingham, who was infatuate with judicial aftrology. He employed him to ca culate the king's and his own nativity, and was a fured that his ftars had promifed him great thing The duke alfo employed him in fome treasonabl and feditious practices, for which he was fent the Tower. He loft much of his former reputa tion by telling Richard Cromwell and Thurle who went to him difguifed like cavaliers, tha Oliver would infallibly be hanged by a certai time; which he outlived feveral years.

(2.) HEYDON, a borough in the E. Riding

Yorkshire

Yorkshire, with a market on Thursday. It is feated on a river, which foon falls into the Humber: and was formerly a confiderable town, but is now much decayed. It is fix miles W. of Hull, and 181 N. by W. of London. Lon. o. 5. W. Lat. 53. 45. N.

(3, 4.) HEYDON. See AYDON, and HEADON. (5-7.) HEYDON, small towns in the counties of Effex, Gloucefter, and Norfolk,

HEYDUKEN, a fort of Hungary near Arad. HEYLIGLAND. See ACTANIA, and HEIL

GELAND.

HEYLIN, Dr Peter, an eminent English writer, born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, in 1600. He ftudied at Hart Hall, Oxford; where he took his degrees of M. A. and D. D. and became an able geographer and hiftorian. He was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to king Charles I. rector of Hemmingford in Huntingdonshire, a prebendary of Westminster, and obtained feveral other livings; but of thefe he was deprived by the parliament, who alfo fequeftered his eftate; by which means he and his family were reduced to great neceffity. However, upon the Reftoration, he was restored to his fpiritualities; but never rofe higher than to be subdean of Westminster. He died in 1662, and was interred in Westminster, where a neat monument was erected to his me mory. His writings are very numerous: the principal of which are, 1. Microcofmus, or a Defcription of the Great World. 2. Cofmographia. 3. The hiftory of St George. 4. Ecclefia Vindicata, or the church of England juftified. 5. Hiftorical and Miscellaneous Tracts, &c.

HELYSHEM, a town of France, in the department of the Dyle, and late prov. of Auftrian Brabant: 14 miles SE. of Louvain. Lon. 5. 7. E. Lat. 50. 40. N.

HEYMERISEN, a town of Germany, in the late electorate of Cologn, on the Erft, now annexed to the French Empire by the treaty of Luneville. According to the laft divifion of the territories on the left bank of the Rhine, in June 1801, into four departments, it appears to be included in that of the Rhine and Mofelle. It is 5 miles W. of Bonne, and 30 E. of Aix-la-Chapelle. Lon. 24. 25. E. of Ferro. Lat. 50. 46. N.

HEYNE, a town of France in the dep. of Efcaut, and ci-devant prov. of Auftrian Flanders, 2 miles N. of Oudenarde.

fentment of Pope, he gave full scope to it by diftinguishing her as gaining one of the prizes in the games introduced in honour of Dulness, in his Dunciad. Nevertheless, it seems undeniable, that there is much fpirit, and much ingenuity, in her manner of treating fubjects, which the friends of virtue may perhaps with the had never meddled with at all. But, whatever offence she may have given to delicacy or morality in her early works, The appears to have endeavoured to atone for, in the latter part of her life; as no author then appeared a greater advocate for virtue. Among her riper productions may be specified, The Female Spectator, 4 vols; The biftory of Mifs Betfy Thoughtlefs, 4 vols; Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, 3 vols; The Invifible Spy, 4 vols; with a pamphlet intitled A prefent for a fervant maid. She died in 1759. (2.) HEYWOOD, John, one of the most ancient dramatic poets, was born at North Mims, near St Alban's in Hertfordshire, and educated at Oxford. From thence he retired to the place of his nativity; where he became acquainted with Sir Thomas More, who had a feat in that neighbourhood. This patron of genius introduced him to the princefs Mary, and afterwards to her father Henry VIII. who was much delighted with his wit and skill in music, and by whom he was frequently rewarded. When Mary came to the crown, Heywood became a favourite at court, and continued often to entertain her majesty, exercifing his faney before her, even to the time that she lay languishing on her deathbed. On the acceffion of Elizabeth, being a zealous Papift, he decamped, and fettled at Mechlin in Flanders, where he died in 1565. He was a man of no great learning, nor were his poetical talents extraordinary; but he possessed talents of more importance in the times in which he lived, namely, thofe of a jefter. He wrote several plays; 500 epigrams; A Dialogue in Verfe concerning English Proverbs; and The Spider and Fly, a Parable, a thick 4to. Before the title of this lat work is a whole-length wooden print of the author; who is also represented at the head of every chapter of the book, of which there are 77. He left two fons, who both became Jesuits and eminent men: viz.

(3.) HEYWOOD, Ellis, who continued fome time at Florence under the patronage of cardinal Pole, and became fo good a mafter of the Italian tongue, as to write a treatise in that language, intitled Il Moro; he died at Louvain about the year

HEYPERG, a mountain of Bavaria. HEÝRIEUX, a town of France, in the dep. of 1572; and, Ifere, 10 miles NE. of Ifere.

HEYTESBURY. See HARESBURY.

(1.) HEYWOOD, Eliza, one of the moft voluminous novel-writers this island ever produced; of whom we know no more than that her father was a tradefman, and that the was born about 1696. In the early part of her life, her pen, whether to gratify her own difpofition, or the prevailing tafte, dealt chiefly in licentious tales, and memoirs of perfonal fcandal: the celebrated Atalantis of Mrs Manley ferved her for a model; and The Court of Carimania, The new Utopia, with fome other pieces of a like nature, were the copies her genius produced. She alfo attempted dramatic writing and performance, but did not fucceed in either. Whatever it was that provoked the re

(4.) HEYWOOD, Jasper, who was obliged to refign a fellowship at Oxford on account of his immoralities. He tranflated three tragedies of Seneca, and wrote various poems and devices; fome of which were printed in a volume entitled The Paradife of Dainty Devifes, 4to. 1573. He died at Naples in 1597.

(5.) HEYWOOD, Thomas, an actor and writer of plays, who died about 1626. He is faid to have wrote 220 plays, of which only 24 are extant, and thefe not much efteemed.

HEZEKIA, or EZEKIAS, (p, Heb. i. e. The ftrength of Jah or Jehovah,] one of the best kings of Judea, fucceeded his father Ahaz, A. M. 3278. His reformation of his fubjects from idolatry; his grand and folemn celebration of the paffover; his

invitation

tle-axe, and the other a kind of guitar. After croffing this portico, you enter a square outer court, paved with large gray ftones, the leaft of which is 10 feet long and 4 broad. At the four fides of this court are four pavilions, terminating in domes, and having a communication with one another by a gallery which runs quite round it: One of thefe contains a bell ten feet in diameter. In the other is kept a drum of an enormous fize, which the bonzes ufe to proclaim the days of new and full moon. The clappers of the Chinese bells & are on the outfide, and made of wood in the form of a mallet. The two other pavilions contain the ornaments of the temple, and often ferve to lodge travellers, whom the bonzes are obliged to receive. In the middle of this court is a large tower, which terminates alfo in a dome, to which you afcend by a beautiful stone stair-cafe that winds round it. This dome contains a temple remarkably neat; the ceiling is ornamented with Mofaic work, and the walls are covered with stone figures in relief, representing animals and monsters. The pillars which fupport the roof of this edifice are of wood varnished, and, on festivals, are ornamented with small flags of different colours. The pavement of the temple is formed of little shells, and its different compartments represent birds, butterflies, flowers, &c. The bonzes continually burn incenfe upon the altar, and keep the lamps lighted, which hang from the ceiling of the temple. At one extremity of the altar ftands a brazen urn, which when ftruck fends forth a mournful found: on the opposite fide is a hollow machine of wood, of an oval form, used for the fame purpofe, which is to accompany with its found their voices when they fing in praise of the tutelary idol of the pagod. The image of Poussa is placed on the middle of this altar, on a flower of gilt brafs, which ferves as a base, and holds a young child in its arms; feveral idols of subaltern deities are ranged around him, and show by their attitudes their veneration. The bonzes have traced out on the walls of this temple feveral hieroglyphical characters in praife of Pouffa; there is alfo to be feen an allegorical painting in fresco, reprefenting a burning lake, in which feveral men appear to be fwimming, fome carried by monsters, others furrounded by dragons. In the middle of the gulph rifes a feep rock, on the top of which the god is feated, holding in his arms a child, who feems to call out to those who are in the

invitation to the Ifraelites to affift at it; his throwing off the Affyrian yoke; his miraculous deliverance from the invafion by Sennacherib, after the blafphemous defiance of Rabshakeh; his mortal difeafe, prophetic prayer, and miraculous recovery, with the fatal confequences of his vanity after it, are recorded in 2 Kings xviii.-xx. 2 Chron. xxix. -xxxii. and Isaiah xxxvi.-xxxix. The hymn he compofed upon his recovery, (Ifa. xxxviii.) entitles him to be ranked among the Types of Chrift. He collected a part of Solomon's Proverbs. (See Prov. xxvi.) Upon the miraculous retrogreflion of the shadow on Abaz's dial, we need fay little. Thofe who doubt the existence of a Deity, or deny his power over the material world, will not be convinced by any arguments. But those who believe that the Almighty, when he gave exiftence to matter, and fubjected it to certain laws, did not thereby limit his own infinite power, will not think it more incredible, that he who created light by his word fhould invert the shadow of the gnomon, fo as to make it appear to have gone to degrees backward, than that a watchmaker fhould turn back the hour or minute hand of a clock, in a direction contrary to the natural motion which he himself has given it. How this was done, whether by a momentary retrograde motion given to the terrestrial globe, or only by an inverfion of the ufual motion of the folar rays upon the gnomon, it is neither necessary nor poffible to determine. (See AJALON.) The latter fuppofition feems moft probable. Upon the former fuppofition it muft have been obferved over one half of the globe. That it was however obferved by the Chaldean aftronomers at Babylon, feems evident from Merodach-Baladan's congratulatory embaffy on Hezekiah's recovery. Hezekiah died in the 54th year of his age, and 29th of his reign; A. M. 3307. HIAMEN, or EMOUY, an island near the SE. coast of China, in the province of Fokien, about 5 miles in circumference; with an extenfive port, capable of containing several thousands of veffels, protected on one fide by the island, and on the other by the main land. The water is fo deep that the largest fhips may lie close to the fhore without danger. It was much frequented by European hips in the beginning of the 18th century, but the trade is now moftly transferred to Canton. 'The emperor keeps a garrifon of feveral thousand men on the island. In the entry of the road there is a large rock, several feet above the surface of the water, which divides it nearly as the Mingant divides the habour of Breft. The island of Hia. men is celebrated for the magnificence of its principal pagod, confecrated to their deity Fo. This temple is fituated in a plain, terminated on one fide by the fea, and on the other by a lofty mountain. The front is 180 feet long, and its gate is adorned with figures in relief. The entry is a vaft portico, with an altar in the middle, on which is placed a gigantic ftatue of gilt brass, representing the god Fo, fitting cross-legged. Four other ftatues are placed at the corners of this portico, each 18 feet high, although they reprefent people fitting. Each of thefe is formed from a fingle block of ftone. One holds a ferpent in its arms, which is twifted round its body in feveral folds; the ad has a bent bow and a quiver; the 2 others prefent, one a bat

ames of the lake; but an old man, with hanging ears and horns on his head, prevents them from climbing to the fummit of the rock, and threatens to drive them back with a large club. The bonzes are at a loss to explain this painting. Behind the altar is a library, containing books on the worfhip of idols. On defcending from this dome you crofs the court, and enter a kind of gallery, the walls of which are lined with boards; it contains 24 ftatues of gilt brafs, reprefenting 23 philofophers, ancient difciples of Confucius. At the end of this gallery is a large hall, which is the refectory of the bonzes; and after having traversed a fpacious apartment, you at length enter the temple of Fo, to which there is an afcent by a large ftone ftair-cafe. It is ornamented with vafes full of artificial flowers, and mufical inftruments.

The

The itatue of the god is not to be seen but through a piece of black gauze, which forms a veil before the altar. The reft of the pagod confifts of feveral large chambers, exceedingly neat, but badly difpofed; the gardens and pleasure grounds are on the declivity of the mountain; and a number of delightful grottos are cut out in the rock, which afford an agreeable fhelter from the exceffive heat of the fun. There are feveral other pagods in the ifland, among which is one called The Pagod of the Ten Thousand Stones, because it is built on the brow of a mountain where there is a number of little rocks, under which the bonzes have formed grottos and covered feats. A certain delightful rural fimplicity reigns here. Strangers are received by these bonzes with great politeness, and may freely enter their temples; but they must not attempt to gratify their curiofity fully, nor to enter thofe apartments into which they are not introduced; for the bonzes, who are forbid under fe vere penalties to have any intercourfe with women, and who yet often keep them in private, might refent too impertinent a curiofity. Lon. 1. 52. E. of Pekin. Lat. 24. 30. N.

HIARBAS, in fabulous hiftory, a king of the Getulians, who made war against Queen Dido. *HIATION. n. S. [from bio, Lat.] The act of gaping.-Men obferving the continual biation, or holding open the cameleon's mouth, conceive the intention thereof to receive the aliment of air; but this alfo is occafioned by the greatness of the lungs. Brown's Vulgar Errours:

HIATSTOWN, a town of New Jersey, in Middlefex county, 13 miles N. of Trenton.

(1.) * HIATUS. n. f. [biatus, Lat.] 1. An aperture; a gaping breach.-Thofe hiatuses are at the bottom of the fea, whereby the abyfs below opens into and communicates with it. Woodward. 2. The opening of the mouth by the fucceffion of an initial to a final vowel.-The hiatus fhould be avoided with more care in poetry than in oratory; and I would try to prevent it, unless where the cutting it off is more prejudicial to the found than the biatus itself. Pope.

(2.) HIATUS is particularly applied to thofe verfes where one word ends with a vowel, and the following word begins with one, and thereby occafions the mouth to be more open, and the found to be very harsh. It is alfo ufed in fpeaking of manufcripts, to denote their defects, or the parts that have been loft or effaced.

HIBE, a town of Hungary.

*HIBERNAL. adj. [hibernus, Lat.] Belonging to the winter.-This ftar fhould rather manifeft its warning power in the winter, when it remains conjoined with the fun in its hibernal converfion. Brown's Vulgar Errours.

HIBERNIA, one of the ancient names of Ireland, is derived by fome from hibernum tempus, winter time, because in that season the nights are long there: But it appears more probable that it has been derived from Erin, the name given to the ifland by the original inhabitants: whence JERNA, the name given it by Claudian, IVERNA, by Ptolemy, and JUVERNA, by Juvenal, are evidently derived. See IRELAND.

HIBISCUS, SYRIAN MALLOW; a genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the monadelphia

clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 37th order, Columnifera. The calyx is double, the exterior one polyphyllous, the capfule quinquelocular and polyfpermous. Of this genus there are 36 fpecies; the most remarkable are,

I. HIBISCUS ALBEMOSCHUS, the musk-seeded hibifcus, a native of the West Indies, where the French cultivate great quantities of it. The plant rifes with an herbaceous ftalk 3 or 4 feet high, fending out 2 or 3 fide branches, garnished with large leaves cut into 6 or 7 acute angles, fawed on their edges, having long footstalks, and placed alternately. The stalks and leaves are very hairy. The flowers come out from the wings of the leaves upon pretty long footstalks which stand erect. They are large, of a fulphur colour, with purple bottoms; and are fucceeded by pyramidical five-cornered capfules, which open in 5 cells, filled with large kidney-fhaped feeds of a very musky odour. It is annual in this country, though biennial in places where it is native. It is propagated by feeds, and must be treated in the manner directed for AMARANTH. It is cultivated in the West Indies by the French, for the fake of its feeds. These are annually fent to France in great quantities, and form a confiderable branch of trade, but the purposes which they answer are not certainly known.

2. HIBISCUS ESCULENTUS, the eatable hibiscus, rifes to 5 or 6 feet; has broad five-parted leaves, and large yellow flowers. The okra or pod is from 2 to 6 inches long, and one inch diameter. When ripe it opens longitudinally in 5 different places, and difcharges a number of heart-shaped feeds. It is a native of the West Indies, where it is cultivated in gardens and inclosures as an article of food. The whole of it is mucilaginous, especially the pods." Thefe Dr Wright informs us, are gathered green, cut into pieces, dried, and fent home as prefents, or are boiled in broths or foups for food. It is the chief ingredient in the celebrated pepper-pot of the Weft Indies, which is a rich olla: the other articles are either flesh meat, or dried fish and capficum. This difh is very palatable and nourishing. As a medicine, okra is employed in all cafes where emollients and lubricants are indicated." This fpecies, as well as the MUTABILIS, ROSA SINENSIS, and TILIACEUS, (N° 3, 4, and 6.) is propagated by feeds. and must be fown in hot-beds; then transplanted into fmall feparate pots, and treated like other tender vegetables, only allowing them a good share of air.

3. HIBISCUS MUTABILIS, the changeable rose, has a foft fpungy ftem, which by age becomes ligneous and pithy. It rifes to the height of 12 or 14 feet, fending out branches towards the top, which are hairy, garnished with heart-shaped leaves, cut into five acute angles on their borders, and flightly fawed on their edges; of a lucid green on their upper fide, but pale below. The flowers are produced from the wings of the leaves; the fingle are compofed of five petals, which spread open, and are at first white, but afterwards change to a blush rofe colour, and as they decay turn purple. In the Weft Indies, all these alterations happen on the fame day, and the flowers them

felves are of no longer duration; but in Britain the changes are not fo fudden. The flowers are furrounded by fhort, thick, blunt capfules, which are very hairy; having five cells, which contain many small kidney-shaped feeds, having a fine plume of fibrous down adhering to them. See N° 2. 4.HIBISCUS, ROSA SINENSIS, the CHINA ROSE, has an arborefcent ftem, and egg-pointed fawed leaves. It is a native of the Eaft Indies; but the feeds having been carried by the French to their Weft India fettlements, it thence obtained the name of Martinico rofe. Of this there are the double and fingle flowering kinds; the feeds of the first frequently produce plants that have only fingle flowers, but the latter feldom vary to the double kind. See N° 2.

5. HIBISCUS SYRIACUS, commonly called althaa frutex, is a native of Syria. It rifes with fhrubby stalks to the height of 8 or 10 feet, fending out many woody branches covered with a fmooth grey bark, garnished with oval fpear. fhaped leaves, whofe upper parts are frequently divided into three lobes. The flowers come out from the wings of the stalk at every joint of the fame year's fhoot. They are large, and fhaped like thofe of the mallow, having 5 large roundish petals which join at their base, fpreading open at the top, in the fhape of an open bell. These ap. pear in Auguft; and if the feafon is not too warm, there will be a fucceffion of flowers till September. The flowers are fucceeded by short capfules, with 5 cells, filled with kidney-shaped feeds; but unlefs the feafon proves warm, they will not ripen in this country. Of this fpecies there are 4 or 5 varieties, differing in the colour of their flowers: the most common hath pale purple flowers with dark bottoms; another hath bright purple flowers with black bottoms; a third hath white flowers with purple bottoms; and a fourth variegated flowers with dark bottoms. There are also two with variegated leaves, which are by fome much esteemed. All these varieties are very ornamental in a garden. They may be propagated either by feeds or cuttings. The feeds may be fown in pots filled with light earth about the end of March, and the young plants tranfplanted about the fame time next year. They fucceed in full ground; but muft be covered in winter whilft young, otherwise they are apt to be destroyed.

6. HIBISCUS TILIACEUS, the MAHO tree, is a native of both the Indies. It rifes with a woody, pithy ftem, ten feet high, dividing into several branches towards the top, which are covered with a woolly down, garnished with heart-shaped leaves ending in acute points. They are of a lucid green on their upper fide, hoary on the under fide, full of large veins, and are placed alternately. The flowers are produced in loofe fpikes at the end of the branches, and are of a whitish yellow colour. They are fucceeded by fhort acuminated capfules, opening in 5 cells, filled with kidney-shaped feeds. It is propagated by feeds. (See N° 2.) The inner rind is very ftrong, and of great efteem. Dampier fays, "They (the Mufketo Indians) make their lines, both for fifhing and ftriking, with the bark of Maho, which is a fort of tree or fhrub that grows plentifully all over the Weft Indies, and whofe bark is made up of ftrings

or threads very strong: you may draw it off either in flakes or fmall threads, as you have occafion. It is fit for any manner of cordage, and privateers often make their rigging of it." See Bark, § I. 37. HIBISCUS TRIONUM, Venice mallow, or flower of an hour, is a native of fome parts of Italy, and has long been cultivated in the gardens of this country. It rises with a branching stalk a foot and a half high, having many fhort fpines, which are foft, and do not appear unless closely viewed: the leaves are divided into three lobes, which are deeply jagged almoft to the midrib. The flowers come out at the joints of the ftalks, upon pretty long foot-ftalks. They have a double empalement ; the outer being compofed of ten long narrow leaves, which join at their base: the inner is of one thin leaf fwollen like a bladder, cut into 5 acute fegments at the top, having many longitudinal purple ribs, and is hairy. Both these are permanent, and inclofe the capfule after the flower is paft. The flower is composed of 5 obtuse petals, which spread open at the top; the lower part forming an open bell-shaped flower. These have dark purple bottoms, but are of a pale fulphur colour above. In hot weather the flowers continue but a few hours open, whence the English name; but there is a fucceffion of flowers that open daily for a confiderable time. It is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown where the plants are des figned to remain, for they do not bear tranfplanting well. They require no other culture than to be kept free from weeds, and thinned where they are too.clofe; and if the feeds are permitted to fcatter, the plants will come up fully as well asit they had been fown.

HIBISI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania, 80 miles W. of Satalia.

HIBRAHIM, or ST MARY, an island in the Indian ocean, near Madagascar, 50 miles long and 14 broad. Lon. 72. 48. E. of Ferro. Lat. 16. 32. S.

*HICCIUS DOCCIUS...[corrupted, I fancy, from hic eft doctus, this or here is the learned man. Ufed by jugglers of themselves.] A cant word for a juggler; one that plays faft and loofe.

An old dull fot," who told the clock
For many years at Bridewell dock,
At Weftminster and Hicks's hall,
And hiccius doccius play'd in all;
Where, in all governments and times,

H'had been both friend and foe to crimes. Hudib.
HICCORY. See JUGLANS.

(1.) HICCOUGH. n. f. [bicken, Danish.] A convulfion of the ftomach producing fobs.— So by an abby's skeleton of late I heard an echo fupererogate

Through imperfection, and the voice restore, As if she had the biccough o'er and o'er. Cleavel. -Sneezing cureth the biccough, and is profitable unto women in hard labour. Brown's Vulgar Err. If the ftomach be hurt, fingultus or biccough follows. Wifeman's Surgery.

(2.) HICCOUGH, or HICKUP, is a fpafmodic affection of the ftomach, cefophagus, and muscles fubfervient to deglutition, arifing fometimes from fome particular ftimulus acting on the ftomach, cefophagus, diaphragm, &c. and fometimes from a general affection of the nervous fyftem. See ME. DICINE.

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