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the queen, who was remarkable for her chastity and cruelty, had fnch an aversion to all proposals of marriage, that not one of her fuitors had efcaped falling a facrifice to her vengeance. Hamlet, in oppofition to all difficulties, performs the embaffy; and, by the affiftance of his fhield, which inspires the lady with a favourable opinion of his wifdom and courage, obtains her in marriage, and returns with her to England. Informed by the princefs to whom he had heen betrothed that her father meditates his affaffination, Hamlet avoids his fate by wearing armour under his robe; puts to death the king of England; and fails to Denmark with his two wives, where he is afterwards killed in a combat with Vigletus, the son of Ruric. This Ruric, whom Alftedius calls Roricus, is ranked by him as the 14th king of Denmark from Dan, who, he fays, flourished A. M. 2898, and A. A. C. 1050.

(2.) HAMLET. n. f. [ham, Saxon, and let, the diminutive termination.] A fmall village.-Within the felf-fame lordship, parish, or hamlet, lands have divers degrees of value. Bacon.

He pitch'd upon the plain

His mighty camp, and, when the day return'd, The country wafted and the hamlets burn'd. Dryden.

(3.) HAMLET, HAMEL, OF HAMPSEL, was formerly used for part of a village or parish. Spelman makes a difference between villam integram, villam dimidiam, and hamletam and Stow expounds it to be the feat of a freeholder. Several county towns have hamlets.

others, he places a young woman in his way, upon which Shakespeare's Ophelia is grounded. At last Fengo departs from Elfineur, concerts a meeting between Hamlet and Gertrude, concluding that the former would not conceal his fentiments from his own mother; and orders a courtier to conceal himfelf, unknown to both, to overhear their converfation. The courtier repairs to the queen's apartment, and hides himfelf under a heap of straw. Hamlet, upon entering the cabinet, fufpecting the prefence of fome fpy, imitates, after his ufual affectation of folly, the crowing of a cock, and, shaking his arms like wings, jumps upon the heap of ftraw; till, feeling the courtier, he draws his fword, and inftantly dispatches him. He then cuts the body to pieces, boils it, and gives it to the hogs. He then avows to his mother that he only perfonated a fool, reproaches her for her incestuous marriage with the murderer of her husband; and, concludes his remonftrances by faying, "Inftead, therefore, of condoling my infanity, deplore your own infamy, and the deformity of your own mind." The queen is filent; but is recalled to virtue by thefe admonitions. Fengo returns to Elfineur, fends Hamlet to England under the care of two courtiers, and requests the king by a letter to put him to death. Hamlet discovers and alters the letter; fo that, upon their arrival in England, the king orders the two courtiers to immediate execution, and betroths his daughter to Hamlet, who gives many aftonishing proofs of a moft tranfcendent understanding. At the end of the year he returns to Denmark, and alarms the court by his unexpect ed appearance; as a report of his death had been fpread, and preparations were making for his funeral. Having re-affumed his affected infanity, he purpofely wounds his fingers in drawing his fword, which the bystanders immediately faften to the fcabbard. He afterwards invites the principal nobles to an entertainment, makes them intoxicated, and in that ftate covers them with a large curtain, which he faftens to the ground with wooden pegs: he then fets fire to the palace; and the nobles, being enveloped in the curtain, perifh in the flames. During this tranfaction he repairs to Fengo's apart ment; and, taking the fword which lay by the fide of his bed, puts his own in its place: he inftantly awakes him and informs him, that Hamlet is come to revenge the murder of his father. Fengo ftarts from his bed, feizes the sword; but, being unable to draw it, falls by the hand of Hamlet. The next morning, when the populace were affembled to view the ruins of the palace, Hamlet fummons the remaining nobles; and in a masterly speech, lays open the motives of his own conduct, and proves his uncle to have been the affaffin of his father. This fpeech had the desired effect; the greater part of the affembly fhed tears, and all prefent unanimously proclaim him king amid repeated acclamations. Hamlet foon after this fails to England, and orders a fhield to be made, on which the principal actions of his life are reprefented. The king receives him with a feigned joy, falfely affures him that his daughter is dead, and advises him to repair to Scotland as his ambaffador, and to pay his addreffes to the queen Hermetruda. He gives this infidious advice in the hopes that Hamlet may perish in the attempt; as

HAMM, or HAM. See HAM, No 7.

HAMMAMLU, a town of Turkey, in Natolia. (1.) * HAMMER. n. f. [hamer, Saxon; bammer, Danith.] 1. The inftrument, confifting of a long handle and heavy head, with which any thing is forged or driven.

The armourers,

With bufy hammers clofing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. Shak. -The ftuff will not work well with a hammer. Bacon.-It is broken not without many blows, and will break the best anvils and hammers of iron. Brown's Vulgar Errours.—Every morning he rises fresh to his hammer and his anvil. South.

The fmith prepares his bammer for the stroke. Dryden's Juvenal. 2. Any thing deftructive.—That renowned pillar of truth and hammer of herefies, St Auguftine. Hakeswill on Providence.

(2.) HAMMER has an iron head, fixed crosswife upon a handle of wood. There are feveral forts of hammers used by blacksmiths; as, 1. The hand hammer, which is of fuch weight that it may be wielded with one hand at the anvil. 2. The up-hand fledge hammer, ufed with both hands, and feldom lifted above the head. 3. The about fledge hammer, which is the biggest of all, and held by both hands at the fartheft end of the handle; and being fwung at arm's length over the head, is made to fall upon the work with as heavy a blow as poffible. The fmalleft hammer used by fmiths is called a rivetting hammer, but is feldom ufel at the forge unlefs upon fmall work. Thefe and a great variety of other hammers of different fizes are ufed by goldsmiths and jewellers. Watchmakers,

Watchmakers, faddlers, carpenters, and joiners have likewise hammers accommodated to their several purposes.

(3.) HAMMER in geography. See HAMAR. (4.) HAMMER ISLAND, an ifle of Sweden in the Baltic, near the coast of Blechingen, 4 miles E. of Carlfcroon.

(5.) HAMMER, LITTLE, a town of Norway, in Aggerhuys, 76 miles N. of Chriftiania.

(1.) To HAMMER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To beat with a hammer.

His bones the hammer'd steel in ftr ngth fur pafs.

2. To forge, to form with a hammer.

Sandys.

Some hammer helmets for the fighting field. Dryden. Drudg'd like a smith, and on the anvil beat, 'Till he had hammer'd out a vast estate. Dryd. -I must pay with hammered money inftead of milled. Dryden. 3. To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labour: used commonly in contempt.

Wilt thou ftill be hammering treachery, To humble down thy husband and thyfelf? Shak. -He was nobody that could not hammer out of his name an invention by this witchcraft, and picture it accordingly. Camden.-Some fpirits, by whom they were stirred and guided in the name of the people, hammered up the articles. Hayw. (2.) To HAMMER. v. n. 1. To work; to be bufy, in contempt.

Nor need'ft thou much importune me to that, Whereon this month I have been hammering.

Shak.

I have been studying how to compare This prifon where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer on't. Shak. 2. To be in agitation.

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand; Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. Shak. HAMMERER. n. f. [from hammer.] He who works with a hammer.

*HAMMERHARD. n. J. [hammer and hard.] Hammerbard is when you harden iron or steel with much hammering on it. Moxon.

HAMMERHUS, a fort of Denmark, in the island of Bornholm.

(1.) HAMMERING. part. the act of extending and fashioning a body under the hammer. When it is performed on iron heated for the purpose, the fmiths call it forging.

(2.) HAMMERING, in coining. A piece of money or a medal is faid to be hammered, when the impreffion is given with a hammer and not with a mill. (1.) HAMMERMAN, n. f. a smith; one who works with the hammer.

(1.) HAMMERMEN, in the polity of the royal boroughs of Scotland, the name of an incorporation, which comprehends most of thofe artizans who make use of hammers; fuch as goldsmiths, jewellers, watch-makers, copperfmiths, braziers, blackfmiths, tin-plate workers, cutlers, gun-fmiths, founders, faddlers, &c. In Edinburgh, however, the GOLDSMITHS, by the set of the burgh, form a

diftinct incorporation, which ranks ad in order, next to the furgeons; while the other artizans above mentioned form the 5th incorporation, under the title of Hammermen.

HAMMERSMITH, a large village 4 miles W. of London, in the parish of Fulham. It has two charity schools, a workhouse, a Prefbyterian meeting-houfe, and a fair, May 1. There are feveral hardfome feats about it, particularly the late lord Melcombe's, which is very elegant, and contains a marble gallery finished at a great expense. It lies N. of the Thames.

· HAMMERSTEIN, a fortrefs of Germany, on the Rhine, opposite to Coblentz.

(1.) HAMMOCK. n. f. [hamaca, Saxon.] A fwinging bed.-Prince Maurice of Naffau, who had been accustomed to hammocks, used them all his life. Temple.

(2.) HAMMOCKS, or HAMACS, are fufpended between two trees, pofts, hooks, or the like, and are much ufed throughout the Weft Indies, as well as on board of fhips. The Indians hang their hammocks to trees, to fecure themselves from wild beafts and infects. According to F. Plumier, who has often made use of the hammock in the Indies, it confifts of a large ftrong coverlet or sheet of coarse cotton, about fix feet fquare: on two oppofite fides are loops of the fame ftuff, through which a string is run, and thereof other loops are formed, all which are tied together with a cord; and thus the whole is fastened to two neighbouring trees in the field, or two hooks in houses. This kind of couch serves at the fame time for bed, quilts, fheets, pillow, &c. The hammock used on board of fhips is made of a piece of canvas 6 feet long and 3 wide, drawn together at the ends. There are ufually from 14 to 20 inches in breadth allowed between decks for every hammock in a fhip of war; but this fpace muft in fome meafure depend on the number of the crew, &c. In time of battle the hammocks and bedding are firmly corded and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, to preferve the men from the fire of the enemy.

HAMMON, a firname of Jupiter. See AMMON, N° 4. and HAM, N° 1.

(1.) HAMMOND, Anthony, Efq; an ingenious English poet, defcended from a good family of Somerfham-Place in Huntingdonshire, was born in 1668. After a liberal education at St John's college, Cambridge, he was chofen M. P. and foon diftinguished himself as a fine fpeaker. He became a commiffioner of the royal navy, which place he quitted in 1712. He publifhed A Mifcellany of poems by the moft eminent hands; in which he himself had a confiderable fhare. He wrote the life of his friend Walter Moyle, Efq; prefixed to his works; and died about 1726.

(2.) HAMMOND, Henry, D. D. one of the most learned English divines in the 17th century, was born in 1605. He ftudied at Oxford, and in 1629 entered into holy orders. In 1633, he was made rector of Penfhurft in Kent; in 1643 archdeacon of Chichefter; and in 1645 a canon of Chrift-church, Oxford, and chaplain to King Charles I. He was alfo chofen public orator of the univerfity. In 1647, he attended the king in his confinement at

Wooburn,

Wooburn, Cavefham, Hampton-Court, and the Isle of Wight. On his return to Oxford he was chofen fub-dean; and continued there till the parliament vifitors ejected and imprisoned him. During this confinement he began his Annotations on the New Teftament. On the 4th April 1660, he was feized by a fit of the stone, of which he died on the 25th of that month, aged 55. He wrote many other works, which have been published together in 4 vols. folio.

(3.) HAMMOND, James, author of the Love Elegies which, fome years after his death, were publifhed by the earl of Chesterfield, was the son of Anthony Hammond, (No 1,) and was equerry to Frederick prince of Wales, which he held till an unfortunate paffion he entertained for a lady, who would not return it, deprived him of his fenfes; upon which he wrote thofe love elegies which have been so much celebrated for their tenderness, and which he composed before he was 23 years of age. He was M. P. for Truro in Cornwall; and died in June 1743, at Stow, the feat of lord Cobham, who, as well as the earl of Chefterfield, honoured him with a particular intimacy. His miftrefs, who was bed-chamber woman to the queen, died in 1779, unmarried.

HAMOAZE, a creek in the British Channel, which forms a harbour for the Royal Navy, capable of containing 100 vessels, in 3 tiers, at from 13 to 15 fathoms water. It is the W. branch of the TAMAR, which falls into Plymouth Sounds.

HAMON, John, M. D. a French physician, born at Cherbourg, in 1618. He wrote feveral works on religious fubjects in an elegant style, and died in 1687, aged 69

HAMONT, or HELMONT, a town of the French republic, in the dep. of the Lower Meuse, and ci-devant bishopric of Liege; 17 miles W. of Ruremond, and 36 N. of Liege. Lon. 5. 31. E. Lat. 51. 17. N.

HAMOSE. See HAMOAZE. HAMOTE, a long island in Q. Charlotte's Sound, between the two islands of New Zealand.

HAMPDEN, John Efq. of Hamden, a celebrated patriot, defcended of an ancient family in Buckinghamshire, was born at London in 1594. He was coufin german to Oliver Cromwell, his mother being Ŏliver's aunt. In 1609 he was fent to Magdalen College, Oxford, whence he went to the inns of court, where he made a confiderable progrefs in the law. He was elected a member of the parliament which began at Westminster Feb. 5. 1626; and ferved in all the fucceeding parliaments in the reign of Charles I. In 1636 he became univerfally known, by his refufal to pay fhipmoney, as being an illegal tax; upon which he was profecuted, and his conduct throughout this tranfaction gained him a great character. When the long parliament began, the eyes of all men were fixed on him as their pater patria. On Jan. 3, 1644, the king ordered articles of high treafon and other misdemeanors to be prepared against Lord Kimbolton, Mr Hampden, and 4 other members of the Houfe of Commons, and went to that houfe to feize them: but they had retired. Mr Hampden afterwards made a fpeech to the house to clear himself of the charge laid against him. In the beginning of the civil war he commanded a regiment of foot, and

was of great fervice to the parliament at the battle of Edge-hill. He received a mortal wound in the fhoulder in an engagement with Prince Rupert, on the 18th June 1643, at Chalgravefield in Oxfordfhire; and died on the 24th. He had the art of Socrates, of interrogating, and under the pretence of doubts, infinuating objections, so that he infused his own opinions into thofe from whom he appeared to learn them. He was a very wife man and of great parts; and poffeffed of the moft abfolute fpirit of popularity to govern the people, that ever was in any country: He was mafter over all his appetites and paffions, and had thereby a very great afcendant over those of other men : He was of an induftry and vigilance never to be tired out, of parts not to be impofed upon by the most fubtile, and of courage equal to his best parts; and, above all, was a man of the most inflexible integrity. (1.) * HAMPER. n. f. [Supposed by Minshew to be contracted from band panier; but banaperium appears to have been a word long in ufe, whence hanaper, hamper.] A large basket for carriage.

What powder'd wigs! what flames and darts! What hampers full of bleeding hearts! Swift. (2.) HAMPER. See HANAPER, $2. *To HAMPER. v. a. [The original of this word, in its prefent meaning, is uncertain: Junius obferves that hamplyns in Teutonick is a quarrel: others imagine that hamper or banaper, being the treasury to which fines are paid, to hamper, which is commonly applied to the law, means originally to fine.] 1. To fhackle; to entangle, as in chains or nets.

O loose this frame, this knot of man untie ! That my free foul may use her wing, Which now is pinion'd with mortality, As an entangl'd, hamper'd thing.

Herbert.

We fhall find fuch engines to affail,
And hamper thee, as thou shalt come of force.
Milton.

-What was it, but a lion hampered in a net! L'ES.
Wear under vizard-masks their talents,
And mother wits before their gallants;

Until they're bamper'd in the nooze, Too faft to dream of breaking loose. Hudibras. -They hamper and entangle our fouls, and hinder their flight upwards. Tillotson. 2. To enfnare; to inveigle; to catch with allurements.She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby.

3.

Shak.

To complicate; to entangle.Engend'ring heats, thefe one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind. Blackmore. 4. To perplex; to embarrass by many lets and troubles.

And when they're hamper'd by the laws, Release the lab'rers for the cause. Hudibras. HAMPFLEN, a town of Germany in Austria, 14 miles SW. of Steyr.

HAMPNET, a village in Gloucestershire. (1.) HAMPSHIRE, or HANTS, or SOUTHAMPTON, a county of England, bounded on the W. by Dorfetfhire and Wiltshire, on the N. by Berkfhire, on the E. by Surry and Suffex, and on the S. by the British Channel. It extends 55 miles in length from N. to S. 40 in breadth from E. to W. and is about 220 miles in circumference. It is di

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wided into 39 hundreds, and contains 9 forefts, 29 parks, one city, 20 market towns, 253 parishes, above 36,000 houses, 1062 villages, and 200,000 inhabitants; who elect 26 members of parliament, two for the county, two for Winchester, and two each for Southampton, Portsmouth, Petersfield, Yarmouth, Newport, Stockbridge, Andover, Whitchurch, Lymington, Chrift-church, and Newton. The air is very pure, especially upon the downs, on which vaft flocks of theep are kept and bred. In the champaign part of the county, the foil is very fertile, producing all kinds of grain. Befides many woods on private eftates, in which there are vaft quantities of well-grown timber, there is the new foreft of great extent, belonging to the crown, well ftored with venerable oaks. In thefe woods and forefts, great numbers of hogs run at large, and feed on the acorns; whence the Hampshire bacon fo far excels that of most other countries. The rivers are the Avon, Anton, Arle, Teft, Stour, and Itchin; befides several smaller streams, all abounding in fish. As its fea-coaft is of confiderable extent, it has many good ports and har bours, and is well fupplied with falt-water fish. Much honey is produced in this county, and a great deal of mead and metheglin made. It also abounds in game. The manufacture of cloth and kerfies is confiderable, and employs great numbers of the poor. The new canal from Bafingftoke to the Wye in Surry, and from thence to the Thames, is of great advantage to the county. To carry it into execution, above L.86,000 were raised amongst 150 proprietors in 1789. It extends 53 miles.

(2.) HAMPSHIRE, a mountainous county in Maffachusetts so miles long from N. to S. and 41 broad; divided into 59 townships. Springfield and Northampton are the chief towns.

(3) HAMPSHIRE, a fertile county of Virginia, 60 miles long and so broad; containing 6892 citizens in 1790, and 454 flaves. It contains iron and coal mines.

(4.) HAMPSHIRE, NEW, one of the United States of North America, bounded on the N. by Lower Canada; NE. by the diftrict of Main; SE. by the Atlantic; S. by Maffachusetts; W. and NW. by the Connecticut, which divides it from Vermont. It is 168 miles long, and between 19 and 90 broad, in form refembling an open fan; the Connecticut being the curve, the S. line the fhorteft, and the E. the longest fide. It contains 9461 fquare miles, or 6,074,240 acres, of which about 100,000 acres are under water. It is divided into 5 counties, viz. Rockingham, Stafford, Hilfborough, Cheshire, and Grafton, which are fubdivided into 214 townships of about 6 miles fquare each. The chief town is PORTSMOUTH. There are two great ri. vers, the PISCATAQUA and the MERRIMAK, which unite about 8 miles from the mouth of the harbour, and form one broad, deep, rapid stream, navigable for fhips of the largest burden. This river forms the only port of New Hampshire. The land next to the fea is generally low; but upon advancing into the country, it rifes into hills. Some parts of the state are mountainous. The WHITE MOUNTAINS are the highest part of a ridge which extends NE. and SW. to a length not yet afcertained. The air is ferene and healthful. The weather is not fo fubject to change as in

more fouthern climates. This ftate embofoming a number of very high mountains, and lying in the neighbourhood of others whofe towering fummits are covered with fnow and ice three quarters of the year, is intenfely cold in winter. The heat of fummer is great, but of fhort duration. The cold braces the conftitution, and renders the labouring people healthful and robuft. On the fea coaft, which extends 18 miles along the SE. corner, and many places inland, the foil is fandy, but affords good pafturage. The intervals at the foot of the mountains are greatly enriched by the freshets, which bring down the foil upon them, forming a fine mould, and producing corn, grain, and herbage, in the most luxuriant plenty. The back lands which have been cultivated are generally very fertile, and produce various kinds of grain, fruits, and vegetables. The uncultivated lands are covered with extenfive forefts of pine, fir, cedar, oak, walnut, &c. This ftate affords all the ma terials neceffary for fhip-building. The popula tion of this ftate has increased rapidly: În 1767 it was estimated at 52,700; in 1787, at 102,000; but by the cenfus in 1790, it was found to be 141,885; of whom only 158 were slaves. The ancient inhabitants were emigrants from England. Their posterity, mixed with emigrants from Maffachusetts, fill the lower and middle towns. Emigrants from Connecticut compofe the largest part of the inhabitants of the western towns adjoining the Connecticut. The negroes, who were never numerous in New Hampshire, are almost all free, In Hanover there is a college; (See HANOVER, N° 5.) at Exeter an academy; at Portsmouth a grammar fchool; and all the towns are bound by law to support schools. The inhabitants of this ftate are chiefly Congregationalifts. The other denominations are Prefbyterians, Baptifts, and Epif copalians. The first discovery made by the Englifh of any part of New Hampshire was in 1614, by Capt. John Smith, who ranged the thore from Penobscot to Cape Cod. On his return to England, he published a description of the country, with a map of the coaft, which he prefented to prince Charles. The first fettlement was made in 1623. New Hampshire was for many years under the jurifdiction of the governor of Maflachu fetts, but had a separate legislature. It bore a proportional share of the expenfes and levies in all enterprises, expeditions, and military exertions, whether planned by the colony or the crown. In every stage of the oppofition that was made to the encroachments of the British parliament, the people, who had always a high sense of liberty, cheerfully bore their part. In 1791, a canal was cut through the marfhes from Hampton to the Merrimak, for 8 miles. This ftate lies between 2° 41′ and 4° 29' Lon. E: of Philadelphia; and between 42° 41′ and 45° 30′ Lat. N.

HAMPSTEAD, a pleasant village of Middlefex, 4 miles NW. of London, on a fine rife, at the top of which is a heath of about a mile square, adorned with feveral feats, in a moft romantic fituation. It has a moft extenfive prospect over London, into Bucks, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Effex, Kent, Surry, Berks, &c. with an uninterrupted view of Shooter's Hill, Banfted Downs, and Windfor Caftle. Its church was anciently a chapel of

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(1.) HAMPTON, a town of England, in Gloucefterfire, on the Cotefwold hills. Lon. 2. 15. W. Lat. 51. 38. N.

(2.) HAMPTON, a town of Middlesex, on the Thames, 15 miles WSW. of London, and two from Richmond and Kingfton. It is chiefly famous for its royal palace, called HAMPTON COURT, which is the fineft in Britain. It was built by cardinal Wolfey, who furnished it richly, and had 280 filk beds for ftrangers. The buildings, gardens, and the two parks, to which William III. made confiderable additions, are about 4 miles in circumference, and are watered on 3 fides by the Thames. The inner court, built by king William, forms a piazza, the pillars of which are fo low, that it looks more like a cloifter than a palace; however, the apartments make ample amends, being extremely magnificent, exactly difpofed, and adorned with moft elegant furniture. Lon. o. 9. W. Lat. 51. 25. N.

(3.) HAMPTON, a fea port of New Hampshire, in Strafford county, 40 miles N. of Bofton; containing 652 citizens in 1795. Lon. 74. o. W. Lat. 43. 5. N.

(4.) HAMPTON, a fea port of Virginia, the capital of the county of Elizabeth-city, feated on a bay near the mouth of the James, 18 miles SE. of York-Town, and 371 SSW. of Philadelphia. Lon. 1. 19. W. of that city. Lat. 37. 10. N.

(5-18.) HAMPTON is alfo the name of 14 Eng. lish villages; viz. of one each, in Cheshire, Devonshire, Gloucefter, Herefordshire, Kent, Salop, Somerfet fhire, and Wilts; and of two each, in Oxford, Warwick, and Worcestershires.

(19.) HAMPTON COURT, a town in Hereford. hire.

(20.) HAMPTON COURT. See N° 2. HAMBRACHI, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan. HAMSA, a celebrated Muffulman doctor, who had the courage to write a book in oppofition to the Koran. His work is remarkable for elegance and purity of style. He flourished about A. D.

1020.

* HAMSTRING, n. f. [ham and firing] The tendon of the ham.

A player, whose conceit

Lies in his hamstring, doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue, and found 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage. Shakef. On the hinder fide it is guarded with the two bamftrings. Wifeman.

To HAMSTRING. v. a. preter. and part. paff. Hamstrung. [from the noun.] To lame by cutting

the tendon of the ham.

Hamftring'd behind, unhappy Gyges dy'd; Then Phalaris is added to his fide. Dryden, HAM-TCHIN, a town of China, in Petcheli. (1.) * HAN for have, in the plural. Obfolete, Spenfer.

(2.) HAN, in geography, a town of China, in

the province of Se-tchuen. Lon. 121.41.E. of Ferro. Lat. 31. o. N.

(3.) HAN, a river of China, in Chenfi. HANAMINE, an ifland on the W. coaft of Ireland, and county of Galway, 2 miles NW. of Rinveel Point.

(1.) * HANAPER. n. f. [banaperium, low Lat.] A treasury; an exchequer. The clerk of the ba naper receives the fees due to the king for the feal of charters and patents.-The fines for all original writs were wont to be immediately paid into the banaper of the Chancery. Bacon.

(2.) The HANAPER, or HAMPER, is an office in Chancery, under the direction of a mafter, his deputy and clerks, comptroller, &c. answering, in fome measure, to the FISCUS among the Romans.

(3.) HANAPER, THE CLERK OR WARDEN OF THE, (§ 1. def. 1.) receives alfo all money due for com. miflions and writs; and attends the keeper of the feal daily in term time, and at all time of fealing; and takes into his cuftody all fealed charters, pa. tents, &c. which he receives into bags, but anciently, it is fuppofed, into bampers, which gave name to the office.

(1.) HANAU, or HANAU MUNZENBERG, 2 county of Germany, bounded by the electorate of Mentz, the bishopric of Fulda, the lordships of Reineck, Ifenburg, and Solms; the territories of Hefle-Homburg, Friedburg, and Frankfort. Its length is 45 miles; its greateft breadth not above 15. It is very fertile in corn, wine, and fruits; and has falt fprings, with mines of copper, filver, and cobalt. The chief rivers are the Mayne, the Kinzig, and the Nidda. The prevailing religion is Calvinism, but Lutherans and Catholics are tolerated. The country is populous, and trade and manufactures flourish in it. In 1736, the whole male line of the counts of Hanau failing in John Reinard, William VIII. landgrave of Heffe Caffel, by a treaty of mutual fucceffion between the fa milies of Hanau and Heffe Caffel, took poffeffion of the county, after fatisfying the house of Saxony for their claims; and in 1754 transferred it to prince William, eldest fon to the then hereditary prince Frederic, afterwards landgrave. The reve, nues of the last count, arifing from this and other territories, are faid to have amounted to 500,000 florins. The chief towns are Hanau, Bergen, Steinau, and Glenhaufen. It now forms a part of the new kingdom of Weftphalia.

(2.) HANAU, a town of Germany, and capital of the above county, (N° 1.) pleasantly fituated on the Kinzig, near its confluence with the Mayne, which divides it into the old and new towns, both fortified. The new town, which was built by French and Flemish refugees, is regular and handfome. The caftle ftands in the old town, is forti, fied, and has a fine garden, with commodious apartments. The Jews are tolerated. Here is an univerfity, with feveral manufactures, particularly of tobacco, and a confiderable traffic. Hanau lies 8 miles E. of Francfort, and 18 NE. of Darmftadt. Lon. 8. 45. E. Lat. 50. 3. N.

HANAZO, a river of Abyffinia.

HANBOROUGH, two villages in Oxfordshire. (1.) *HANCES. n. f. [In architecture.] The ends of elliptical arches; and these are the arches of smaller circles than the scheme, or middle part

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