Homer
Homer Is Merely A Name For The Unknown Authorship Of The 'iliad) And The 'odyssey,' The Two Noble Epics That Stand At The Beginning Of Greek Literature. Poems So Exquisite Can Not Really Be A Beginning Either In• Thought, Language Or Metre. They Presuppose A Com Plex Evolution Of Legend ...
Homestead
Homestead, Hinn'sted, Pa., Borough In Allegheny County, On The Monongahela River And On The Pittsburgh And Lake Erie, The Penn Sylvania And Other Railroads, About Seven Miles South Of Pittsburgh. It Was Settled In 1871 And Incorporated And Chartered In 1880. The Chief Manufactures Are Foundry-products, Glass, Machinery And Steel ...
Homestead Law
Homestead Law. The Homestead Law Is A Series Of Enactments Beginning With The Act Of 20 May 1862, Which Provides For The Disposition Of The Public Lands To Home Makers Without Requiring Any Compensation Ex Cept The Mere Acts Of Residence, Cultivation And Improvement. A Person Who Is The Head ...
Homicide
Homicide, Homi-sid, Or Man-killing, Is Either Justifiable, Excusable Or Felonious. Of The First Sort Are Such Cases As Prise From Un Avoidable Necessity Or Accident, Without Any Imputation Of Blame Or Negligence In The Party. Killing. Where A Crime Is Punishable Capitally According To The Laws, The Judge Is' Bound ...
Homily
Homily (greek, Homilia, Intercourse), As An Ecclesiastical Term, A Discourse Addressed To An Audience On Some Subject Of Religion. The Homily Was So Called To Distinguish It From The Speeches Of Profane Orators. The Ancient Hom Ily Was Sometimes Simply A Conversation, The Prelate Talking To The People And Interrogating ...
Homoeopathy
Homoeopathy Signifies Similar Affec Tion, Passion, Suffering Or Disease. As Em Ployed In Medicine, And As Understood By Ha'hnemann And Physicians Of The Homcea Pathk School, Homceopathy May Be Defined As: The Treatment Of Disease By Means Of Its Si Milimnm. The Cure Is Undertaken By A Medicine Capable Of ...
Honduras
Honduras, British, Or Belize, A Crown Colony In Central America, South Of Yucatan, And 660 Miles West From Jamaica. It Is Bounded On The North And Northwest By Mexico (yuca Tan), On The East By The Caribbean Sea And Gulf Of Honduras And On The South And West By Guatemala. ...
Honduras
Honduras, Central American Republic, Bounded On The North And Northeast By The Gulf Of Honduras And The Caribbean Sea; On The Southeast And South Nicaragua; And On The Southwest And West By The Gulf Of Salvador And Guatemala. Estimated Area, 46,250 Square Miles. The Republic, Divided Into 17 Departments And ...
Honey
Honey, A Sweet Sticky Liquid Obtained 175 Bees And Other Insects From Flowers (see Hon Et-bee ; And Flowers And Insects) As Food, Or Taken Home To Be Stored As Food For The Young. The Care With Which The Honey-bee (q.v.) Col Lects And Stores This Substance In Its Hive ...
Honey Hill
Honey Hill, Battle Of. On The Night Of 28 Nov. 1864, General Foster, Commanding The Federal Troops In The Department Of The South, Left Hilton Head, S. C. With 5,000 In Fantry, Cavalry And Artillery, And About 500 Sailors And Marines, For Boyd's Neck On The South Side Of Broad ...
Hongkong
Hongkong, 118ng'-lcong", Or Hian Kiang, Hein-keing (signifying "tlic Place Of Sweet Streams"), An Island Off The Southeast Coast Of China, Forming With Kau-lung On The Mainland A British Crown Colony And Naval Station. The Island Is On The East Side Of The Estuary Of The Chu-kiang Or Canton River, 90 ...
Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii, Capital And Princi Pal City Of The Hawaiian Islands (now A United States Territory), And Commercial Metropolis Of Polynesia; The Business Heart Of The Central Pacific. It Is 2,089 Miles Southwest Of San Francisco, In Lat. 21° 17' 56" N., Long. 157° 51' 48" W. It Lies On ...
Hood
Hood, John Bell, American Soldier: B. Owingsville, Icy., 29 June 1831; D. New Or Leans, La., 30 Aug. 1879. He Was Graduated At West Point In 1853 And Bore A Commission In The United States Army Till 1861 When He Joined The Army Of Secession. The•part He Took In The ...
Hood River
Hood River, Ore., Name Applied To A Valley, Town And River In Wasco County. The Town Is Situated On The Columbia River And On The Line Of The Oregon-washington Railway And Navigation Company, 66 Miles East Of Port Land And 22 Miles Below The Dalles, The County Seat. The Hood ...
Hood_2
Hood, Robin, English Outlaw : Said To Have Been B. 1160 And D. 1247. According To The Popular Account, With His Followers, He In Habited Sherwood Forest, In Nottinghamshire, And Also The Woodlands Of Barnsdale In The Adjoining West Riding. They Supported Them Selves By Levying Toll On The Wealthy, ...
Hood_3
Hood, Thomas, English Poet And Humor Ist: B. London, 23 May 1799; D. There, 3 May 1845. In 1821 He Became Sub-editor Of The Lon Don Magazine, And From That Time Appears To Have Resolved On Devoting Himself Entirely To A Literary Life. In 1826 He Published 'whims And Oddities.) ...
Hoof
Hoof, A Toe-nail Which Is Large, Envelops The Terminal Phalange, And Is Of Material As Sistance In Walking, As In The Case Of Horses, Cattle And Other Ruminants, And In The Elephant, Rhinoceros, Etc. It Is Most Highly Developed In The Horse, Where The Whole Terminal Part Of The Foot ...
Hooker
Hooker, Joseph, American Soldier: B. Hadley, Mass., 13 Nov. 1814; D. Garden City, N. Y., 31 Oct. 1879. He Was Graduated At West Point In 1837 And Received A Commission In The First Artillery. He Served In Florida And On The Northeast Frontier 1837-40 And During The Mexican War Was ...
Hooker_2
Hooker, Six Joseph Dalton, English Rl Su Eon And Botanist: B. Halesworth, Suffolk, 30 June 1817; D. Aged 94, Sunnydale, 10 Dec. 1911 His Father Was Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor Of Botany At Glas Gow University, And His Mother The Daughter Of A Banker, Dawson Turner, Of Great ...
Hookworm
Hookworm, Anatomy And Life His Tory. The Hookworms Or Ankylostomes Are True Roundworms (nematoda, Q.v.) And Belong To The Order Of The Strongyles. They Are Char Acterized By A Well-developed Buccal Capsule Armed With Teeth Or Cutting Plates, And In The Male A Fan-shap I Ed Bursa Around The Posterior ...
Hookworm Disease
Hookworm Disease, Synonymy: Anicylostoniasis, Anchylostomiasis, Uncinanasis, Dochmiosis, Brickmakers' Anemia, Miners' Anamia, Geophagia Or Dirteating, Egyptian Or Tropical Chlorosis, Tunnel-workers' Anamia, Tun Nel Disease (and Very Improperly), Malaria! Cac.hexia Or Anaemia. The Disease Has Also Re Ceived Other Names In Many Other Tongue. That This Disease Existed In Africa And Perhaa ...
Hoopeston
Hoopeston, Hoops'ton, Ill., City In Ver Milion County, On The Lake Erie And Western And The Chicago And Eastern Illinois Railroads, About 85 Miles South Of Chicago And 48 Miles South By East Of Kankakee. It Has A Carnegie Library, Several Public Parks And Is The Seat Of Greer College, ...
Hoosier Schoolmaster
Hoosier Schoolmaster, The. In The Conclusion To The 'hoosier Edward Eggleston Announces His Belief That Readers Whose Taste Is Not Perverted Always Want A Story To "come Out Accordingly He So Planned This His First And Most Important Romance That The Lovers Are All Happily United, The Poor Orphans Become ...
Hopkins
Hopkins, Esek, First Commodore Of The American Navy: B. Scituate, R. I., 1718; D. North Providence, R. I., 26 Feb. 1802. In No Vember 1775 He Received A Commission From The Continental Congress As Commodore And Acorn Mander-in-chiefp Of The Navy, Soon After Which He Put To Sea With The ...
Hoppin
Hoppin, James Mason, American Scholar And Author: B. Providence, R. I., 17 Jan. 1820; D. 1906. He Was Graduated From Yale In 1840, Studied Law At The Harvard Law School (1841-42), Theology At The Union And Andover Seminaries (1843-45) And The University Of Berlin (1847-49), Was Ordained To The Congre ...
Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Horace (quintus Horatius Flaccus), Roman Poet Of The Augustan Age: B. Venusia, Italy, 8 Dec. 65 S.c.; D. Rome, 27 Nov. 8 Ja.c. Our Information About Horace's Life Is Derived In The Main From His Own Writings, Which Are Supplemented In A Few Details By A Brief Biog Raphy Attributed ...
Horaces Satires And Epis
Horace's Satires And Epis Tles. The And Epistles> Of Horace, Each In Two Books, Appeared At Irregular Inter Vals From 35 Ac., When The Poet Was 30 Years Of Age, To Almost The Close Of His Life In 8 B.c. They Are The Products Of A Mature And Well Balanced ...
Horizon
Horizon. In Its Most Familiar Sense The Horizon Is The Line Or Circle Around Which Earth And Sky Seem To Meet. On The Ocean This Circle Is Smooth And Easily Visible, And Is Then Called The Sea Horizon. In Astronomy The Horizon Is Defined By A Plane At Right Angles ...
Horn
Horn, A Tough, Flexible, Semi-transparent Substance Derived From The Epidermis, Which May Be Developed Morbidly As A Corn, Or Nat Urally, As In The Callosities On The Legs Of A Horse; Or In Connection With Important Func Tions, As When It Forms The Outer Sheath Of The Outgrowths Upon The ...
Hornet
Hornet, The, The Name Of Two Sloops Of War In The American Navy During The War Of 1812. The Chief Was A Ship-rigged 18-gun Sloop, And Did Brilliant Service. Through De Cember And January 1812-13, Under Master Commandant James Lawrence, She Blockaded The 20-gun English Sloop Bonne Citoyenige In The ...
Horse
Horse, The French Coach. The Pre Vailing Characteristic Of A Frenchman Is His De Votion To Those Things That Make Life Pleasant. From An Artistic Standpoint He Leads The World. Pleasure And Horses Go Together. A French-. Man Is Instinctively A Horseman. The French Cavalry Is Without An Equal In ...
Horse
Horse, In A General Sense, A Member Of The Ungulate Family Equidee; But In Ordinary Use The Word Designates The Single Domestic Species (equus Caballus), The Wild Original Of Which Is Unknown. It Is Not Decided, In Fact, Whether A Single Species, Or More Than One, Was The Source, Nor ...
Horse Bot Fly
Horse Bot-fly, A Bot-fly (gastro Phi Lus Equi) Parasitic In Horses. The Adult Is About .75 Inch Long; The Wings Transparent With Dark Spots Forming An Irregular Band Toward The Centre; The Body Brown And Very Hairy, The Head Whitish In Front, And The Abdomen Dark Spotted. The Females (males ...
Horse Power
Horse Power, The Power Of An Ordi Nary Horse Or Its Equivalent, The Force With Which A Horse Acts When Drawing. The Mode Of Ascertaining A Horse's Power Is To Find What Weight He Can Raise And To What Height In A Given Time, The Horse Being Supposed To Pull ...
Horse Shoe Crab Horsefoot Crab
Horsefoot Crab, Horse-shoe Crab, Or King Crab. This Marine Animal (limulus Polyphemus) Was Formerly Regarded As A Crustacean, And Is The Sole Survivor Of An Extinct Group Of Arthropods Intermediate Be Tween The Trilobites And Arachnids. It Belongs To The Order Xiphosura, Class Merostomata, And Phylum Pahropoda. By Some English ...
Horse Shoe Robinson
Horse-shoe Robinson: A Tale Of The Tory Ascendency, Was Published By John Pendleton Kennedy In 1835 With A Dedication To Washington Irving, Whose 'bracebridge Hall) Kennedy Had Already Followed In His Charming And Truthful 'swallow Barn, Or A Sojourn In The Old Dominion) (1832). Cooper, Not Irving, However, Furnished The ...
Horse In Art And
Horse In Art And Symbolism. In Christian Art The Horse Has Been Considered As A Symbol Of Courage, Intrepidity And Gen Erosity. In An Opposite Sense This Animal Has Been Used As An Emblem Of Luxury. The Bible And The Fathers Treat Of The Horse As Emblem Atic Of Both ...
Horse_2
Horse, Military. The Relative Import Ance Of The Horse As A Factor In The Progress Of Civilization Has Been Somewhat Reduced By The Introduction Of Steam And Electricity, But Trit Chanical Devices Such As The Bicycle And Auto Mobile Are Not Likely To Wholly Supplant The Indispensable Ally Of Man ...
Horse_3
,horse, The Percheron. The Percheron Horse Is The Production Of The Most Patient Care And The Application Of The Best Scientific Principles Of Breeding. From The Dawn Of His Tory. The French Breeders Of Draft-horses Have Been • Most Successful, And The Horses They Have Raised Have Been Renowned The ...
Horsefield
Horsefield, Thomas, American Uralist And Explorer: B. Bethlehem, Pa., 12 May 1773; D. London, England, 1866. He Was Graduated In Medicine At The University Pennsylvania, And Served As "medical Appren Tice In The Pennsylvania Hospital From 1794 99, Being The Fifth Interne In The Hospital In The Order Of Appointment. ...
Horseshoe Bend
Horseshoe Bend, Battle Of, In The War Of 1812. When Jackson Reached Fort Strother After His Battles At Emuckfaw (q.v.) And Enotachopco, Many Of The Volunteers Re Turned Home, Thus Forcing Him Into Temporary Idleness, But In February 1814 Some Regulars Arrived And, Therefore, As Others Of His Volun Teers ...
Horticulture
Horticulture, The Art Of Growing, Improving, Propagating And Utilizing Fruits, Vegetables And Flowers For Food And For Orna Mentation. While Horticulture Is Strictly An Art, It Is Grounded In And Supported By Many Branches Of Science, All Of Which Play An Im Portant Part In The Success Of The Work. ...
Horton
Horton, Samuel Dana, American Pub Licist: B. Pomeroy, Ohio, 16 Jan. 1844; D. Wash Ington, D. C.. 23 Feb. 1895. He Was Graduated From Harvard In 1864, And From The Law School In 1868, And Also Studied Abroad, Especially In Berlin 1869 And 1870. He Began The Practise Of Law ...
Hosea
Hosea. A Hebrew Prophet Whose Re• Corded Ministry Was Slightly Later Than That Of Amos, The First ((writing Hosea Was Evidently, Like Elijah, A Citizen Of The Northern Kingdom, To Whom The King Of Samaria Was Sour King,)) While Amos Came From His Home In Judah To Preach In Israel. ...
Hosiery And Knit Goods
Hosiery And Knit Goods In Dustries In The United States. Most Of The History Of The Hosiery Industry Re Lates To Inventions Of Knitting Machinery. The First Knitting Machine, Invented In 1589 By Wil Liam Lee, An Englishman, Knit A Complete Course At One Operation. His Machine Had Hooked, Spring ...
Hosius
Hosius (ho'shi-us) Of Cordova, Churchman Of The 3d Century: B. About 257; D. About 358. Sources Concerning His Life Are Limited To Two Letters, One To Emperor Constantine And One To Julius Of Rome, And To Allusions By Contemporaries. He Was Probably Made Bishop About 295, Holding The Office Until ...
Hospital
Hospital, Psychopathic. Psychopathic Hospitals (psychiatric Clinics, Psychiatric Insti Tutes) Are Institutions For The Specialized Care And Investigation Of Mental Disease. They Represent The Application Of General Hospital Ideals And Investigative Standards To The Problems Of Disorders Of Mind. They Are In Stitutions For The First Care And Observation Of Mental ...
Hospital Ships
Hospital Ships. By The Regulations For The Government Of The Navy Of The United States, Ships May Be Designated By The Navy Department As Hospital Ships. In All Matters Concerning Their Use As Hospitals, They Are As Similated To Hospitals On Shore, And Are Under The Control Of The Bureau ...
Hospitals
Hospitals, Field. In The United States Army, The Director Of Field Hospitals Is, Like The Director Of Ambulance Companies, Immediately Under The Division Surgeon And Is The Latter's Executive In Respect To The Field Hospitals Of The Division. His Supervision Over The Field Hospi Tals Is Similar To That Exercised ...
Hospitals
Hospitals, History And Construction. History.— Hospitals In The Sense Of Institu Tions For The Care Of The Ailing Poor First Occur In History As Christian Foundations. Public Hospitals Are Mentioned By No Classical Writer Before The Time Of Christ, And No Trace Of One Is To Be Found In The ...