Hedgebot Or Haybote
Hedgebot Or Haybote, An Ancient Legal Term Sig Nifying The Right Of A Tenant Or Copyholder To Take Or Cut Wood For Specific Purposes Such As The Repairs Of Fences And Hedges For The Upkeep Of The Premises As Distinguished From The Cutting Of Timber For Building Purposes, Which Constituted ...
Hedgehog Or Urchin
Hedgehog Or Urchin, A Mammal Of The Order Insecti Vora (q.v.), Remarkable For Its Armature Of Spines And Short Tail. The Upper Jaw Is Longer Than The Lower, The Snout Long And Flexible, And The Claws Long But Weak. The Animal Is About Loin. Long, The Lower Surface Covered With ...
Hedging
Hedging, A Method By Which Traders In Commodities May Partially Or Entirely Insure Themselves Against Loss From Price Fluctuations. The Technique Of Hedging Is The Making At About Tht Same Time Of Two Contracts Of An Opposite Though Correspond Ing Nature ; One A Genuine Trade Contract In A Cash ...
Hedon
Hedon, A Municipal Borough Of The East Riding Of York Shire, England, 5 M. E. Of Hull By L.n.e. Railway, And 2 M. From The River Humber. Pop. (1931), 1,509. It Was Formerly A Con Siderable Port. According To Tradition The Men Of Hedon Received A Charter Of Liberties From ...
Hedonism
Hedonism, In Ethics, A General Term For All Theories Of Con Duct In Which The Criterion Is Pleasure Of One Kind Or Another (gr. ? Ovri, Pleasure, From Iibvs, Sweet, Pleasant). Hedonistic Theories Of Conduct Have Been Held From The Earliest Times, Though They Have Been By No Means Of ...
Heerlen
Heerlen, A Town Of Holland In The South Of The Province Of Limburg, On The Railway From The German Frontier At Alsdorf Westward And Northward, And About 5 M. From The Frontier. Pop. (1927), 4(3,719. The Town Is One Of The Centres Of The Coalfield Which Is Now In Course ...
Hegelian Philosophy
Hegelian Philosophy. Hegelianism Is Confessedly One Of The Most Difficult Of All Philosophies. Every One Has Heard The Legend Which Makes Hegel Say, "one Man Has Understood Me, And Even He Has Not." He Abruptly Hurls Us Into A World Where Old Habits Of Thought Fail Us. In Three Places, ...
Hegemon Of Thasos
Hegemon Of Thasos, Greek Writer Of The Old Comedy, Flourished During The Peloponnesian War. According To Aris Totle (poetics, Ii. 5) He Was The Inventor Of A Kind Of Parody; By Slightly Altering The Wording In Well-known Poems He Transformed The Sublime Into The Ridiculous. Fragments In T. Kock, Comicorum ...
Hegemony
Hegemony, The Leadership Especially Of One Particular State In A Group Of Federated Or Loosely United States. The Term Was First Applied In Greek History To The Position Claimed By Dif Ferent Individual City-states, E.g., By Athens And Sparta, At Differ Ent Times To A Position Of Predominance Among Other ...
Hegesias Of Magnesia
Hegesias Of Magnesia (in Lydia), Greek Rhetori Cian And Historian, Flourished About 30o B.c. Strabo (xiv. 648) Speaks Of Him As The Founder Of The Florid "asiatic" Style (see Timaeus). Agatharchides, Dionysius Of Halicarnassus And Cicero All Speak Of Him In Disparaging Terms, Although Varro Seems To Have Approved Of ...
Hegesippus
Hegesippus, Athenian Orator And Statesman, Nicknamed Kpeo0vxos ("knot"), Probably From The Way In Which He Wore His Hair. He Lived In The Time Of Demosthenes, Whose Anti-mace Donian Policy He Supported. In 343 B.c. He Was One Of The Am Bassadors Sent To Philip To Discuss The Restoration Of The ...
Hegesippus_2
Hegesippus (ft. A.d. 50-180), Early Christian Writer, Was Of Palestinian Origin, And Lived Under The Emperors Antoninius Pius, Marcus Aurelius And Commodus. He Belonged To That Group Of Judaistic Christians Which, While Keeping The Law Them Selves, Did Not Attempt To Impose On Others The Requirements Of Circumcision And Sabbath ...
Hegesippus_3
Hegesippus, The Supposed Author Of A Free Latin Adapta Tion Of The Jewish War Of Josephus Under The Title De Bello Judaico Et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae. The Seven Books Of Josephus Are Compressed Into Five, But Much Has Been Added From The Antiquities And From The Works Of Roman Historians, ...
Heide
Heide, A Town In The Prussian Province Of Schleswig Holstein, On A Small Plateau Between The Marshes And Moors Bordering The North Sea, 35 M. N.n.w. Of Gluckstadt. Pop. In 1447 It Became The Capital Of The Ditmarsh Peasant Republic, But On June 13, 1j59 It Was The Scene Of ...
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, The Name Of Two Towns In South Africa: (a) 31' S., 22' E. Altitude, 5,026 Feet. Pop. (1931), White And About 1,500 Natives. The Town Is Built On The Blesbok Spruit, Just On The South-eastern Side Of The Witwatersrand Gold Fields. It Is Situated In The Transvaal, 42 M. ...
Heidelberg_2
Heidelberg, A Town Of Germany, On The South Bank Of The Neckar, 12 M. Above Its Confluence With The Rhine, 13 M. S.e. From Mannheim And S4 M. From Frankfort-on-main By Rail. The Town Lies Between Lofty Hills Covered With Vineyards And Forests, At The Spot Where The Rapid Neckar ...
Heidenheim
Heidenheim, A Town Of Germany, In The Land Of Wurt Temberg, 31 M. By Rail N. By E. Of Ulm. Pop. (1933) 21,903, The Town, Which Received Municipal Privileges In 1356, Is Over Looked By The Ruins Of The Castle Of Hellenstein, Standing On A Hill 1,985 Ft. High. Its ...
Heilbronn
Heilbronn, A Town Of Germany, In The Land Of Wiirt Temberg, On The Neckar, 33 M. By Rail N. Of Stuttgart, And At The Junction Of Lines To Crailsheim And Eppingen. Pop. 6o,308. Heilbronn Occupies The Site Of An Old Roman Settlement ; It Is First Mentioned In 741, And ...
Heilsberg
Heilsberg, A Town In The Province Of East Prussia, At The Junction Of The Simser And Alle, 38 M. S. Of Konigsberg. Pop. It Has An Old Castle, Founded By The Teutonic Order In 124o, Which Was From 13o6-c. 1800 The Seat Of The Bishops Of Ermeland. In 1807 The ...
Heilsbronn Or
Heilsbronn Or A Vil Lage Of Germany, In The Bavarian Province Of Middle Franconia, On The Railway Between Nurnberg And Ansbach, Has 1,50o Inhabit Ants. In The Middle Ages It Possessed One Of The Great Monasteries Of Germany, Which Belonged To The Cistercian Order And Owed Its Origin To Bishop ...
Heimdal Or Heimdall
Heimdal Or Heimdall, In Scandinavian Mythology, Keeper Of The Gates Of Heaven, Guardian Of The Rainbow Bridge Bifrost, Used By The Gods Between Heaven And Earth, Son Of Odin By Nine Virgins. He Lives In The Fort Of Himinsbiorg At The End Of Bifrost. Nothing Can Escape His Vigilance, For ...
Heinrich Heine
Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856), German Poet And Jour Nalist, Was Born At Dusseldorf, Of Jewish Parents, On The 13th Of December 1797. He Was The Eldest Of Four Children, And Received His Education, First In Private Schools, Then In The Lyceum Of His Native Town. When He Left School In 1815, ...
Heinrich Hermann Josef Hess
Hess, Heinrich Hermann Josef, Freiherr Von (1788-187o), Austrian Soldier, Entered The Army In 1805 And After Distinguished Service In The Napoleonic Wars, Became In 1831 Chief Of Staff To Radetzky On His Appointment To The Command In Austrian Italy. An Excellent Organizer, He Assisted His Chief To Make The Austrian ...
Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke
Henke, Heinrich Philipp Konrad (1752 1809), German Theologian, Was Born At Hehlen, Brunswick, On July 3, 17 5 2. He Studied At Helmstedt, And From 1778 To 1809 He Was Professor, First Of Philosophy, Then Of Theology, In That University. He Died On May 2, 1809. Henke Belonged To The ...
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (18s7-94), German Phys Icist, Was Born At Hamburg On Feb. 22, 1857. On Leaving School He Studied Engineering, But Abandoned It In Favour Of Physics. Hertz Went To Berlin, Where He Studied Under Helmholtz (q.v.). In 1883 He Went To Kiel, Becoming Privatdozent, And There He Began ...
Heinrich Von Herzogenberg
Herzogenberg, Heinrich Von Austrian Musician And Friend Of Brahms, Was Born At Graz, Styria, On June Io, 1843, And Studied At The Vienna Conservatoire. He Settled In Leipzig In 1872, And From 1875 To 1885 Was Conductor Of The Bach Verein. He Was Later Professor At The Berlin Hoch Schule, ...
Heinrich Von Veldeke
Heinrich Von Veldeke (fl. 12th Century), German Poet, Was Born Near Maestricht, Holland, Of A Noble Family. He Served At The Court Of Cleves, Where His Poem Eneit (ed. By Behaghel, 1882) Was Begun. Eneit Is Modelled On A French Version Of The Famous Tale Of The Roman D'eneas, Commonly ...
Heir
Heir, In Law, Technically One Who Succeeds, By Descent, To An Estate Of Inheritance, In Contradistinction To One Who Succeeds To Personal Property, I.e., Next Of Kin. The Rules Regulating The Descent Of Property To An Heir Will Be Found In The Articles ...
Heirloom
Heirloom, Strictly So Called In English Law, A Chattel Which By Immemorial Usage Is Regarded As Annexed By Inheritance To A Family Estate. Any Owner Of Such Heirloom May Dispose Of It During His Lifetime, But He Cannot Bequeath It By Will Away From The Estate. If He Dies Intestate ...
Hejira Or Hegira
Hejira Or Hegira, The Name Of The Mohammedan Era (arab, Hijra, Flight). It Dates From 622, The Year In Which Moham Med "fled" From Mecca To Medina To Escape The Persecution Of His Kinsmen Of The Koreish Tribe. The Years Of This Era Are Dis Tinguished By The Initials "a.h." ...
Hel Or Hela
Hel Or Hela, In Scandinavian Mythology, Goddess Of The Dead, A Child Of Loki And The Giantess Angurboda, Dwelt Beneath The Roots Of The Sacred Ash, Yggdrasil (q.v.), And Ruled The Nine Worlds Of Helheim. In Early Myth All The Dead Went To Her: In Later Legend Only Those Who ...
Helder
Helder, Seaport In Province Of North Holland, 51 M. By Rail N.n.w. Of Amsterdam. Pop. (1926) 29,897. It Is Situated On The Marsdiep, The Channel Separating The Island Of Texel From The Mainland And The Main Entrance To The Zuider Zee. It Is The Terminus Of The North Holland Canal ...
Helen
Helen, In Greek Mythology, Daughter Of Zeus By Leda (wife Of Tyndareus, King Of Sparta) Or By Nemesis : Sister Of Polydeu Ces And Clytaemnestra, And Wife Of Menelaus (gr. 'emit ). She Was The Most Beautiful Woman In Greece, And Indirectly The Cause Of The Trojan War. When A ...
Helena
Helena, A City Of Arkansas, U.s.a., On The Mississippi River, 55m. (in A Bee-line) Below Memphis; The County Seat Of Phillips County. It Is Served By The Illinois Central, The Missouri And Northern Arkansas, And The Missouri Pacific Railways, And Is At The Head Of Navigation For Ocean-going Steamers. The ...
Helena_2
Helena (hel'-e-na), The Capital City Of Montana, U.s.a., The County Seat Of Lewis And Clark County; Near The Centre Of The Western Part Of The State, At The Eastern Foot Of The Continental Divide. It Is On Federal Highway 91; Is Served By The Great Northern And The Northern Pacific ...
Helensburgh
Helensburgh, A Burgh Of Barony And Police Burgh And Watering-place In Dumbartonshire, Scotland, On The North Shore Of The Firth Of Clyde, Opposite Greenock, 24 M. N.w. Of Glasgow By The L.n.e.r., With Another Station At Upper Helensburgh. Pop. (1931) 8,893. There Is Steamer Communication With Gareloch Head, Dunoon And ...
Helenus
Helenus, In Greek Legend, Son Of Priam And Hecuba, And Twin Brother Of Cassandra. In Homer, He Appears As A Seer And Warrior. In Later Writers It Is Related That He And His Sister Fell Asleep In The Temple Of Apollo Thymbraeus And That Snakes Came And Cleansed Their Ears, ...
Helgaud Or Helgaldus
Helgaud Or Helgaldus (d. C. 1048), French Chron Icler, Was A Monk Of The Benedictine Abbey Of Fleury. Little Else Is Known About Him Save That He Was Chaplain To The French King, Robert Ii. The Pious, Whose Life He Wrote. The Only Extant Ms. Of This Epitoma Vitae Roberti ...
Heliacal
Heliacal, Relating To The Sun (r')xtos), A Term Applied In The Ancient Astronomy To The First Rising Of A Star Which Could Be Seen After It Emerged From The Rays Of The Sun, Or The Last Setting That Could Be Seen Before It Was Lost From Sight By Proximity To ...
Heliand
Heliand. The 9th-century Poem On The Gospel History, To Which Its First Editor, J. A. Schmeller, Gave The Appropriate Name Of Heliand (the Word Used In The Text For "saviour"), Is, With The Fragments Of A Version Of The Story Of Genesis Believed To Be By The Same Author, All ...
Helicon
Helicon, A Mountain Range In Greece, Celebrated In Classi Cal Literature As An Abode Of The Muses, Is Situated Between Lake Copal's And The Gulf Of Corinth. The Highest Summit, The Present Palaeovouni (old Hill), Rises To The Height Of About 5,000 Ft. On The Fertile Eastern Slopes Stood A ...
Helicon_2
Helicon, The Circular Form Of The B Flat Contrabass Tuba Used In Military Bands, Worn Round The Body, With The Enormous Bell Resting On The Left Shoulder And Towering Above The Head Of The Performer, (fr. Helicon, Bombardon Circulaire; Ger. Helikon). The Pitch Of The Helicon Is An Octave Below ...
Helicopter
Helicopter. A Flying Machine Whose Supporting Surfaces Are Rotated Mechanically, Being Equivalent To An Air-screw (or Air-screws) So Arranged As To Give An Approximately Vertical Thrust. Since Such A System Does Not Derive Its Lift From A Motion Of The Whole Machine Through The Air (contrast Both The Ordinary Aero ...
Heligoland Bight
Heligoland Bight. On Aug. 28, 1914, A Sweep By The British Light Naval Forces Into The Heligoland Bight Brought About The First Serious Contact Between The Opposing Naval Forces During The World War. The Action Began At Daylight, Developed Into A Series Of Confused Fights, In Misty Weather Upon A ...
Heligoland
Heligoland (ger. Helgoland), An Island Of Germany, In The North Sea, Lying Off The Mouths Of The Elbe And The Weser, 28 M. From The Nearest Point In The Mainland. Pop. (1925) 2,588. The Generally Accepted Derivation Of Heligoland (or Helgoland) Is From Heiligeland, I.e., "holy Land." The Original Name ...
Heliocentric
Heliocentric, I.e., Referred To The Centre Of The Sun (o Los) Los) As An Origin, A Term Designating Especially Co-ordinates Of Heavenly Bodies Referred To That Origin. ...
Heliodorus
Heliodorus, Of Emesa In Syria, Greek Writer Of Romance. He Was The Author Of The Aethiopica, The Oldest And Best Of The Greek Romances That Have Come Down To Us. It Was First Brought To Light In Modern Times In A Ms. From The Library Of Matthias Corvinus, Found At ...
Heliogabalus Elagabalus
Heliogabalus (elagabalus), Roman Emperor (a.d. 218-222), Was Born At Emesa About 205. His Real Name Was Varius Avitus. On The Murder Of Caracalla (217), Iulia Maesa, Varius's Grandmother And Caracalla's Aunt, Left Rome And Retired To Emesa, Accompanied By Her Grandsons (varius And Alexander Severus). Varius, Though Still Only A ...
Heliometer
Heliometer, An Instrument Originally Designed For Measuring The Variation Of The Sun's Diameter At Different Seasons Of The Year (named From Gr. I X Cos, Sun, And Or A Measure) . By Subsequent Improvements It Became One Of The Most Accurate Astronomical Instruments For Measuring Angular Distances Between Stars, But ...
Heliopolis
Heliopolis, An Ancient City Of Egypt (the Biblical On). It Stood 5 M. E. Of The Nile At The Apex Of The Delta. It Was The Principal Seat Of Sun-worship, And In Historic Times Its Importance Was Entirely Religious. There Appear To Have Been Two Forms Of The Sun-god At ...
Heliostat
Heliostat, An Instrument Containing A Mirror Driven By Clockwork So As To Reflect Sunlight In A Fixed Direction; E.g., On To The Slit Of A Fixed Spectroscope. It Is Of More Complicated De Sign Than The Coelostat (q.v.). It Has The Advantage Over The Coelostat That The Instrument Fed By ...
Heliotherapy
Heliotherapy (see Public Health ; Therapeutics). Heliotherapy, Or Treatment By Sunlight, Has Been Intermittently Practised Since The Dawn Of History, But Its Scientific Use Dates From The Time Of Finsen, Who Developed Light Treatment By Em Ploying Artificial Light, Notably The Carbon Arc. It Owes Much To The Work Of ...
Heliotrope Or Turnsole
Heliotrope Or Turnsole, Heliotropium, I.e., A Plant Which Follows The Sun With Its Flowers Or Leaves, A Genus Of Usually More Or Less Hairy Herbs Or Undershrubs Of The Family Boragi Naceae, Having Alternate, Rarely Almost Opposite Leaves ; Small White, Lilac Or Blue Flowers, In Terminal Or Lateral One-sided ...
Heliozoa
Heliozoa. Single-celled Animals, Mostly Spherical In Form, Distinguished By Numerous, Somewhat Stiff, Protoplasmic Processes (axopodia), Which Serve As Organs Of Locomotion, And Also Are Of Use In The Taking-in Of Food. See Protozoa. ...
Helium
Helium Is A Colourless, Odourless Gas Of A Family Of Ele Ments, Which On Account Of Their Extreme Chemical Inertness Are Termed The "inert" Or "noble" Gases. It Is The Lightest Gas Known Except Hydrogen. It Was Discovered In The Sun (1868) Many Years Before It Was Found On The ...
Helius Eobanus Hessus
Hessus, Helius Eobanus 540) German Latin Poet, Was Born At Halgehausen In Hesse-cassel, On Jan. 6, 1488. His Family Name Is Said To Have Been Koch. He Entered The University Of Erfurt In 1504 And Became Professor Of Latin There In 1517. He Was Associated With The Distinguished Men Of ...
Helix
Helix, A Line Which Rises As It Twists, Such As The Line Of A Screw Thread. In Architecture, The Term Helix Is Sometimes Given To The Spirally Twisted Stalks Or Volutes Under The Corners Of The Abacus Of The Corinthian Capital (see Order). The Helix Form Is Also Found Most ...
Hell Bender
Hell-bender, The American Vernacular Name For An Aquatic Salamander, Cryptobranchus (q.v.) Alleghaniensis. ...
Hell
Hell, Used In English Both Of The Place Of Departed Spirits And Of The Place Of Torment Of The Wicked After Death (0. Eng. Hel, A Teutonic Word From A Root Meaning "to Cover"). In The O.t. It Translates The Hebrew Sheol, In The N.t. The Greek Hades, And 14evva, ...
Hellebore
Hellebore, A Genus (helleborus) Of Plants Of The Family Ranunculaceae, Natives Of Europe And Western Asia. They Are Coarse Perennial Herbs With Palmately Or Pedately Lobed Leaves. The Flowers Have Five Persistent Petaloid Sepals, Within The Circle Of Which Are Placed The Minute Honey-containing Tubular Petals Of The Form Of ...
Hellenism
Hellenism. The Term "hellenism" Is Ambiguous. It Is Derived From Gr. Ixx Iqav, To Speak The Language Of The Greeks, Who Called Themselves "exxip'er, After Hellen, The Son Of Deu Calion. In Late Greek `ex\.rivccrµos Means Imitation Of The Greeks (septuagint, 2 Macc. Iv. 13) . It May Be Used ...
Hellespont
Hellespont (i.e., "sea Of Helle"; Variously Named In Classical Literature `exxiiairovros, O "exxnsirovros, Hellespontum Pelagus, And Fretum Hellesponticum), The Ancient Name Of The Dardanelles (q.v.). It Was So-called From Helle, The Daughter Of Athamas (q.v.), Who Was Drowned Here. See Argonauts. ...
Hellevoetsluis Or Helvoetsluis
Hellevoetsluis Or Helvoetsluis, A Fortified Seaport In The Province Of South Holland, On The South Side Of The Island Of Voorne-and-putten, 5 I M. S. Of Brielle. It Has A Daily Steamboat Service With Rotterdam By The Voornsche Canal. Pop. (1926) 2,324. Hellevoetsluis Was Formerly A Naval Station. ...
Hellin
Hellin, The Illunum Of The Romano, A Town Of South Eastern Spain, In The Province Of Albacete, On The Albacete Murcia Railway. Pop. (1921) 10,967. Hellin Is Built On The Out Skirts Of The Low Hills Which Line The Left Bank Of The River Mundo. It Possesses The Remains Of ...
Helm Wind
Helm Wind, A Violent, Cold, Easterly Wind Occasionally Blowing Down The Western Slope Of Cross Fell, Cumberland, Eng Land, When A Helm (helmet) Cloud Covers The Summit. ...
Helmet
Helmet, A Defensive Covering For The Head. The Present Article Deals With The Helmet During The Middle Ages Down To The Close Of The Period When Body Armour Was Worn. For The Helmet Worn By The Greeks And Romans See Arms And Armour. The Head-dress Of The Warriors Of The ...
Helmold
Helmold, An Historian Of The 12th Century, Was A Priest At Bosau Near Pion. He Was A Friend Of The Two Bishops Of Olden Burg, Vicelin (d. "54) And Gerold (d. 1163), Who Did Much To Christianize The Slays. At Bishop Gerold's Instigation Helmold Wrote His Chronica Slavorum, A History ...
Helmond
Helmond, Town In The Province Of North Brabant, Hol Land, On The River Aa, And On The Canal Zuid-willems Vaart Between 'shertogenbosch And Maastricht, 244 M. By Rail W.n.w. Of Venlo. It Is Connected By Tramway With 'shertogenbosch (21 M. N.w.). Pop. (1926) 22,924. The Castle Of Helmond, Built In ...
Helmund
Helmund, A River Of Afghanistan, About 600 M. Long, The Ancient Etymander, The Most Important River In Afghanistan, Next To The Kabul River, Which It Exceeds Both In Volume And Length. It Rises In The Recesses Of The Koh-i-baba To The West Of Kabul, Its Infant Stream Parting The Unai ...
Helots
Helots (gr. Ezxwre5 Or Efxwrae ), The Serfs Of The Ancient Spartans. They Were Probably The Aborigines Of Laconia Who Had Been Enslaved By The Achaeans Before The Dorian Conquest. After The Second Messenian War (see Sparta), The Conquered Messenians Were Reduced To The Status Of Helots. The Helots Were ...
Helsingborg
Helsingborg, A Seaport Of Sweden In The District (lan) Of Malmohus, 35 M. N. By E. Of Copenhagen By Rail And Water. Pop. (r 928) 53,417. The Original Site Of The Town Is Marked By The Tower Of The Old Fortress, Which Is First Mentioned In And Whose Ruins Stand ...
Helsingfors Or Helsinki
Helsingfors Or Helsinki, The Capital, Seaport And Only Large Town Of The Republic Of Finland. In 18ro It Had Only 4,065 Inhabitants; In 1926 There Were 215,829. Helsinki Is Well Laid Out With Wide Streets, Parks And Gardens. The Principal Square Contains The Cathedral Of St. Nicholas, The Senate House ...
Helston
Helston, A Market Town And Municipal Borough Of Corn Wall, England, 1 1 M. W.s.w. Of Falmouth. Pop. (1931) Helston (henliston, Haliston, Helleston), The Capital Of The Meneage District Of Cornwall, Was Held By Earl Harold In The Time Of The Confessor And By King William At The Domesday Survey. ...
Helvetic Confessions
Helvetic Confessions, The Name Of Two Documents Expressing The Common Belief Of The Reformed Churches Of Switzer Land. The First, Known Also As The Second Confession Of Basel, Was Drawn Up At That City In 1536 By Henry Bullinger And Others. The Second Helvetic Confession Was Written By Bullinger In ...
Helvetii
Helvetii, A Celtic People, Whose Original Home Was Situated In The Country Between The Hercynian Forest, The Rhine, And The Main. In Caesar's Time Their Boundaries Were The Jura On The W., The Rhone And The Lake Of Geneva On The S., The Rhine As Far As Lake Constance On ...
Helvidius Priscus
Helvidius Priscus, Stoic Philosopher And Statesman, Lived During The Reigns Of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius And Ves Pasian. He Held High Offices During This Time, In Spite Of His Republican Views. During Nero's Reign He Was Quaestor Of Achaea And Tribune Of The Plebs (a.d. 56), And Restored Order In ...
Helwan
Helwan, A Well-known Health Resort In Egypt, 16 Nl. South Of Cairo And Connected With It By Rail. Standing 15o Ft. Above The Nile Level, And Surrounded By Desert, It Enjoys A Dry Equable Climate Specially Suitable For Invalids; And It Possesses Strong Sulphur And Salt Springs With A Natural ...
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead, A Town And Municipal Borough In Hertfordshire, England, 25 M. N.w. From London. Pop. (1931) 15422. Settlements In The Neighbourhood Of Hemel Hempstead (hamalamstede, Hemel Hampsted) Date From Pre-roman Times, And A Roman Villa Has Been Discovered At Boxmoor. The Manor, Royal Demesne In Io86, Was Granted By ...
Hemichorda Or Hemichordata
Hemichorda Or Hemichordata, A Zoological Term Introduced By W. Bateson In 1884 As Equivalent To Entero Pneusta, Which Then Included The Single Genus Balanoglossus, And Now Generally Employed To Cover A Group Of Marine Worm Like Animals Probably Related To The Lower Vertebrates. Verte Brates, Or Chordates, Are Distinguished By ...
Hemicycle
Hemicycle, In Architecture, Any Large, Semi-circular Recess, Usually Covered With A Semi-dome; A Monumental Exedra (q.v.). ...
Hemimorphite
Hemimorphite, A Mineral Consisting Of Hydrous Zinc Silicate, Of Importance As An Ore Of The Metal, Of Which It Contains 54-4%. It Is Interesting Crystallographically By Reason Of The Hemimorphic Development Of Its Orthorhombic Crystals; These Are Prismatic In Habit And Are Differently Termi Nated At The Two Ends. Connected ...
Hemipode
Hemipode, A Name Given To The Bustard-quails, Inhabi Tants Of Africa, Southeastern Asia And Australia, Which Stand Between The Quails And The Rails. Of The 3o Species, 29 Belong To The Genus Turnix. They Are Called Hemipodes (half-footed) Be Cause The First Toe Is Absent. As Among The Phalaropes (q.v.) ...
Hemiptera
Hemiptera (gr. *tit Half And Irrepov A Wing), The Name Applied In Zoological Classification To That Order Of Insects (q.v.) Which Includes Plant-bugs, Cicadas, Aphides And Scale Insects. The Name Was First Given By Linnaeus (173 5) Who Applied It In Allusion To The Half-coriaceous And Half-membranous Character Of The ...
Hemlock
Hemlock, The Name Commonly Given In North America To Trees Of The Genus Tsuga, Of The Pine Family (pinaceae), Corn Prising Nine Species, Five Of Which Are Native To Eastern Asia And Four To Temperate North America. They Are Tall, Pyramidal Evergreen Conifers, With Cinnamon-red Bark; Slender, Horizontal Or Somewhat ...
Hemp
Hemp, An Annual Herb (cannabis Sativa) Having Angular Rough Stems And Deeply Lobed Leaves. The Bast Fibres Of Cannabis Are The Hemp Of Commerce, But The Products From Many Totally Different Plants Are Often Included Under The General Name Of Hemp. In Some Cases The Fibre Is Obtained From The ...
Hempstead
Hempstead, A Village Of Nassau County, New York, U.s.a., 5 M. E. Of The Brooklyn City Limits; Served By The Long Island Railroad. The Population In 193o Was I 2,650. It Is A Residen Tial Suburb And A Summer Resort, A Trade Centre, And Has Aeroplane And Other Factories. Mitchel ...
Hen
Hen, The Female Of Any Bird, Especially Of The Common Fowl. (see Poultry And Poultry Farming, Fowl.) ...
Henbane
Henbane, The Common Name Of The Plant Hyoscyamus Niger, A Member Of The Family Solanaceae, Indigenous To Britain, Found Wild In Waste Places, On Rubbish About Villages And Old Castles, And Cultivated For Medicinal Use In Various Counties In The South And East Of England. It Occurs Also In Central ...
Henchman
Henchman, One Who Attended On A Horse, A Groom, And Hence, Like Groom (q.v.), A Title Of A Subordinate Official In Royal Or Noble Households. The First Part Of The Word Is The O.e. Hengest, A Horse. The Word Appears In The Name, Hengest, Of The Saxon Chieftain (see Hengest ...
Henderson
Henderson, A City Of North-western Kentucky, U.s.a., On The Ohio River, 12m. Below Evansville, Ind. ; The County Seat Of Henderson County. It Is On Federal Highways 41 And 6o, And Is Served By The Illinois Central, The Louisville And Nashville, And The Louisville. Henderson And St. Louis Railways. The ...
Henderson_2
Henderson, A City Of North Carolina, U.s.a., 44m. N. By E. Of Raleigh; The County Seat Of Vance County. It Is On Federal Highway 1, And Is Served By The Seaboard Air Line And The Southern Railways. The Population Was 5,222 In 1920 ; In 193o. It Has Large Cotton ...
Hendiadys
Hendiadys, A Rhetorical Figure In Which Two Words Con Nected By A Conjunction Are Used Of A Single Idea; Usually The Figure Takes The Form Of Two Substantives Instead Of A Substantive And Adjective, As In The Classical Example Pateris Libamus Et Auro (virgil, Georgics, Ii. 192), "we Pour Libations ...
Hendon
Hendon, A Borough (since 1932) Of Middlesex, England, On The River Brent, 8 M. N.w. Of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Pop. (1931) 115,682. The Church Of St. Mary Is Mainly Perpendicular, And Contains A Norman Font. To The North Of The Village, Now A Residential Suburb Of The Metropolis, Is ...
Hengelo Or Hengeloo
Hengelo Or Hengeloo, A Town In The Province Of Overys Sel, Holland, And A Junction Station 5 M. By Rail N.w. Of Enschede. Pop. (1926) 30,036. The Town Is The Centre Of The Flourishing Industries Of The Twente District. The Manufacture Of Cotton In All Its Branches Is Carried On, ...
Hengest
Hengest And Horsa, The Brother Chieftains Who Led The First Saxon Bands Which Settled In England. They Were Apparently Called In By The British King Vortigern (q.v.) To Defend Him Against The Picts. Their Landing Place Is Said To Have Been Ebbs Fleet In Kent. Its Date Is Not Certainly ...
Henley On Thames
Henley-on-thames, A Market Town And Municipal Borough Of Oxfordshire, England, On The Left Bank Of The Thames, The Terminus Of A Branch Of The Great Western Railway, By Which It Is 354 M. W. Of London, While It Is S7i M. By River. Pop. (t 93r) 6,618. It Is Situated ...
Henna
Henna, The Persian Name For A Small Shrub Found In India, Persia, The Levant And Along The African Coasts Of The Mediter Ranean, Where It Is Frequently Cultivated. It Is The Lawsonia Iner Mis Of Botanists, So Called Because Young Trees Are Spineless, While Older Ones Have The Branchlets Hardened ...
Hennebont
Hennebont, A Town Of Western France, In The Department Of Morbihan, 6 M. N.e. Of Lorient. Pop. (1931) 8,148. Henne Bont Is Famed For The Resistance Which It Made, Under The Widow Of Jean De Montfort, When Besieged In 1342 By The Armies Of Philip Of Valois And Charles Of ...
Henogamy
Henogamy, A Term Used To Denote The Custom By Which One, And Only One, Member Of A Family Or Stock Is Permitted To Marry, Or Is Required To Marry According To Definite Rules Which Are Not Binding On Other Members Of The Family. Thus, Among The Nabuthiri Brahmins Of Malabar ...
Henri Harpignies
Harpignies, Henri (1819-1916), French Landscape Painter And Engraver, Born At Valenciennes On June 28, 1819. He Took To Painting Comparatively Late In Life Entering Achard's Atelier In Paris At The Age Of 27. He Went To Rome In 185o Returning To Paris In 1852. During The Next Few Years He ...