HOPS.
Ifutnic, . . . DA., Sw. Luppoli, IT Hoppe, . . . DUT. ItarnalaS lupulus, . LAT.
lfoublon, Fa. Chmel, . . . Bus.
Hopfen, . . . . GER. Oblon, Sr.
BrasCandOli, . . . IT. Lupulo, . . Sr., FORT.
t The hop plant has been introduced into India, • grows well at Kaolagir in the noon, but flowers sparingly. It has yielded enormously in Australian '• colonies, in Victoria, along the valleys of Gipps ig land, and other localities, to the extent of 1500 lbs. 1 an acre. The properties of hops, of giving the bitter to beer and preventing acetous fermen tation, enable it to be kept much longer. To it, 31. o doubt, is owing a portion of the stomachic roperties of malt liquor, as we see exemplified n the,bitter, often called Indian, ales. Hops are • iypnotic, especially when stuffed into a pillow, ut they should bo first moistened with spirits, to wevent the rustling noise. Fomentations also h ' lave been used. Hops arc thought to be diuretic
as is also the root), and to be useful in correcting Wile acid deposits.—Royle; Von Mueller.
• HOR or TIBETAN. Kao-tsze, ra his race call themselves Ighur. They seem to be Iv shot. They dwell on the north-western frontier f Tibet, on the confines of the Turk districts of 'Attie Bokhara. Some of them arc Mahomedans, lid Mr. Hogdson considers them to bo Turks.— athant's Ethnology.
HORA. &trim, LAT. The 1-24th part of 3 he natural day, answering to a European hour.
I The Vara or solar day in Hindu almanacs is . reckoned from sunrise to sunrise, and is divided into 24 bora or hours, and each horn of the day is ruled by one of the planets in turns, the rotation being the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars.—Kala Sankalita. See Tithi ; Vara.