Hill
Hill, Howl-and (1744-1833). An English Preacher Of Great Popularity. His Father Was A Baronet, And He Was Born At Ilawkstone Park, Shrcpshire, On The Border Of Wales, August 23. 1744. He Graduated Wa. At Cambridge In 1769, And While There Made The Acquaintance Of White Field, Preached In The Surrounding ...
Hill_2
Hill, Sir Tiowi:and (1795-1879). The Re Former Of The English Postal System. At Twelve He Became A Teacher In His Father's School At Birminghams And Before He Reached His Majority He Had Organized A Remarkable System Of Dis Cipline Which Came To Be Known As The Hazelwood Method I From ...
Hill_3
Hill, Tholt.ts (1818-91). An American Edu Cator And Unitarian Clergyman, Born In New Brunswick. N. J.. Of English Parentage. He Was Left An Orphan When About Ten Years Old, And In 1830 Was Apprenticed To A Printer For A Term Of Three Years. He Spent The Year 1834-35 At The ...
Hillel
Hil'lel. Called Ilanattu (`the Babylo Nian'i, Or Ilazzakt:x ('the Elder'). A Jewish Rabbi Who Died A Few Years After The Beginning Of The Christian Era. By Birth A Babylonian, Lie Left His Home And Came To .lerusakm To Study The Law. By Doing Manual Labor Lie Was Enabled To Support ...
Hiller
Hiller, Ftatinnann (1811-85). An End. Neat German Pianist. Conductor, And Composer, Born At, Frankfurt. From Early Boyhood He Wai A Student Of Music, His Concert Tkbut Taking Place At Ten Years Of Age, Followed Two Years Later By The Production Of His First Composition. Llis First Teachers Were Hofmann For ...
Himalaya
Himalaya, Hi-rnii'llt-yzi (skt.. The Abode Of Snow. From Hima. Snow T (ibiya. Abode). In South Central Asia. The Most Elevated And Stu Pendous Mountain System On The Globe (map: India, D 3). It Is Not, As Sometimes Represented. A Single Chain, But A System, Consisting Of Several Parallel And Converging ...
Hincmar 806 82
Hinc'mar (806-82). A Celebrated Church Man Of The Ninth Century. Lie Was Born In Si) I. Presumably In Toulouse. As He Belonged To The Family Of The Counts Of That Province. He Was Educated In The .monastery Of Saint-denis. Near Paris. And Was Intrusted With The Framing And Carrying Out ...
Hindu Music
Hindu Music. According To The Aneient Hindu Lielief All Arts Were Bestowed Upon Man By Various Gods, And Music Was The Gift Of Brahma. The Early History Of Musk. In India Is So Beset With Fables And Reaches Back To Such Remote Antiquity That It Is Impossible To Trace Its ...
Hindu Period
Hindu Period. The Aryans (q.v.) Entered The Punjab Perhaps As Early As B.c. 2000. They Came From The Iranian Country, Apparently By Two Routes, Through The Mountain Passes In Southern Afghanistan And By Way Of Chitral, And Gradually Forcing Their Way East And South, Expelled Or Subdued The Aborigines, Such ...
Hinoyossa
Hinoyossa, Lie'lloi-os'sa, Alexander D'. The Director Of Nieuer Amstel, A Dutch Colony Established On The East Hank Of The Delaware In 1656, And Afterwards Governor Of All The Set Tlements On That River Until The Conquest Of New Netherland By The English. Hinoyossa Was Born And Died In Holland, And ...
Hip Joint
Hip-joint. A Hall-and-socket Joint, Formed By The Reception Of The Globular Head Of The Thigh ) One (or Femur) Into The Deep Pit Or Cup In The S Innominateent. Which Is Known As The Aeetabee Lain (so Called From Its Resemblanee To The Vine Gar Cups Used By The Romans). ...
Hipparchus
Hipparchus, Hip-pliektis (let., From Gk. "irrapxos) (11. Between 'lc. 161 And 126). A Greek Astronomer And Mathematician. Ile Was Born In Nictea. Bithynia, But His Astronomical Work Was Clone On The Island Of Rhodes. And Pos Sibly Also In Alexandria. Of His Personal History Nothing Is Known. Lie Was The ...
Hippias
Hip'pias (lat., From Gk. '17rwtarl ( ?-c.490 U.c.). A Tyrant Of Athens. Son Of Pisistratus. Upon Whose Death (etc. 527) He Assumed The Government In Conjunction With His Brother Ilip Parelms. According To Thucydides, The Govern Ment Of The Brothers Was Conducted On The Same Principle As That Of Their ...
Hippoceates
Hippoc'eates (lat., From Gk. 'irroxprirlc, Ilippokruffs)(e.460-357 N.c.). A Greek Physician, The Most Celebrated Of Antiquity, Anti Justly Called 'the Father Of Medicine.' Ile Was The Son Of Lieraelides, Also A Idlysiehtn, And Belonged To The Family Of The Aselepiadw, Being Either The Nineteenth Or Seventeenth In Descent Front .-esen Inputs. ...
Hippocratic Oath
Hippocratic Oath. An Oath Taken By Young Men In The Early Days On Entering Upon The Practice Of Medicine. In Ancient Times The Oath Was Ascribed To Hippocrates, And Is Prob Ably Authentic. It Runs As Follows: "1 Swear By Apollo, The, Physician, By .-esculapius, By Hygicia, Panacea, And All ...
Hippodrome
Hippodrome (lat. Hippudroul Us, Front 1:7764poiroc, Race-course. From Hippos, Horse (immoc, Dromos. Enure, Front • V, Dromein. To Run). The Greek Name For The Place Set Apart For Horse And Chariot Races. The Seem To Have Varied At Different Places. In Construction And All Important Points Of Arrangement It Was ...
Hippolytus
Hippolytus. The Name Of Several Saints And Martyr; Of The Early Church. Of Whom The Most Interesting Flourished In The Early Part Of The Third Century. Although A Very Prominent Man In His Day, The Known Of His Life Are Few, Ile Was Of I;reek Aneestry And Possibly Born In ...
Hippophagy
Hippoph'agy ( From Gk. Pophagog, Horse-eating. From Irros. Hippos. Horse Oayeir, Phagcin, To Eat 1. The Eating Of Horse Flesh. That Semi-civilized Nations Eat Horse-flesh Is Well Known. In Spain A Banquet Comprising Roasted Horse-flesh Among The Viand: Is Given At The Present Day. In 1555 And 1s.1(1 There Was ...
Hippopotamus
Hip'popot'amus (lat., From Gk./n-71-071-6ra Uos, Hippopotamus, River-horse. From I'rros, Hip Pos, Horse + Rorakuss, Potamos. River). A Huge, Thick-skinned. Almost Aquatic. Kind Of Mammal Of Tropical Africa, Two Living And Ninny Fossil Species Of Which Constitute The Family Hippo Potamid.r. This Family Is Closely Allied To The Swine, And It ...
Hippuric Acid
Hippu'ric Acid (from Gk. Trroc, Hippos, Horse + Oi5'pov, Ouron, Urine), A Com Pound Of Great Interest, Loth To The Chemist And To The Physiologist. It Derives Its Name From Its Having Been First Discovered In The Urine Of The Horse, And That Fluid, Or The Renal Secretion Of The ...
Hiroshima
Hiroshima, The Capital Of The Japanese Province Of -\1:1 And Of The Prefec Ture Of Hiroshima. Situated At The Southwestern Of Llondo, About Three Miles Inland (:\iap: Japan, C Co. It Lies In A Beautiful Region At The Foot Of :: Hill. And Contains A Number Of Tine A Park. ...
Hispania
Hispa'nia (probably Connected With Heb. Shapan, Rabbit, From Shapan, To Hide). The Name By Which The Spanish Peninsula. Including The Modern Spain And Portugal. Was Known To The Romans. By The Greeks It Was Called Iberia, And By The Roman Poets Sometimes Hesperia, The Western Land. The Earliest Inhabitants Of ...
Histological Technique
Histological Technique. The Methods Of Histological Observation Were At First Extremely Crude, Consisting Merely In Tearing Apart The Tissues And Examining Them Under The Microscope. Such Handling, Of Course, Largely Destroyed The Relations Of The Different Elements Of The Tissues To One Another. The Cut Ting Of Thin Sections Of ...
Histology
Histology (from Gk. Laros, Histos, Web, From Larcivat, Histanai, To Stand + -.2my1a, Account. From Ni-yetv, Legein, To Say). That Branch Of Biological Science Which Treats Of The Micro Scopical Structure Of Living Organisms, Both Ani Mal And Vegetable. The Histology Of Plants Belongs To The Domain Of Botany, That ...
History
History. The House Of Hesse-cassel, Repre Senting The Elder Line Of The House Of Hesse, Was Founded By William Iv.. The \vise, The Eldest Of The Four Sons Of Philip The Magnanimous (1509 (171. (see Ilfsse.) 'william, Who Ruled As Landgrave From 1567 To 1592, Was A Good Ad Ministrator, ...
History
History (lat. Historia, Gk. Loroph, History, From Icrrwp, Hist6r, Learned, Front Ettlirat, Rig. C71(11, Skt. Rid, Olig. Ger. Iris:ten, To Know ) . A Systematic Narrative Of Past Or, In The Light Of Modern Historical Scholarship, The Science Of The Progressive Development Of Human Society. The Social And Eemitunie Conditions ...
History_2
History. The First White Explorers Of Idaho Were Lewis And Clark In The First Decade Of The Nineteenth Century. A Mission Is Reported To Have Been Established At Cccur D'ali:ne In 1842, But For Many Years After That The Region Was Visited Only By Hunters And Prospectors. It Was Organized ...
History_3
History, The Aboriginal Inhabitants Of The State Were The Indian Tribes Of Iowa (q.v.) And Illinois (q.v.), Who In The Course Of Time Were Driven From Their Homes By The Saes And Foxes. Marquette And -joliet. In 1673. And Hen Nepin. In Mo. Touched On The Borders Of The State. ...
History_4
History. For The Early History Gf Ireland The Most Valuable Sources Have Been Published By The Irish Record Commis-ion (lund On, - W.) The Best Books On The Early Period Are: Joyce, 1 ,short History Of Ireland To Igos (5th Ed., London. Ism;) S Zinintern. The Irish Elen(cnt In .11ediatal ...
Hittites
Hit'tites. A Name That Properly Designates A Rather Promiscuous Group Of Nations Whose Set Tlements Extended From The Westerly Portions Of Asia Minor To Armenia, Northward Close To The Caspian Sea, And Southward To The Watershed Between The Euphrates And The Orontes. Be Sides This We Also Find References In ...
Hoactzin
Hoactzin, Iiii-fikt'sin (south American Name), Or Ilaxxa. A Bird (opisthocomus Cris Tatus) Of Guiana And Brazil, Possessing, Many Conflicting Characteristics Of Structure, So That Its Place Hi Classification Has Been Greatly In Dispute. Sonic Writers Have Regarded It As Near Ly Related To The Plantain-eaters; Others To The Eurassows. Most ...
Hobbeiwa
Hobbeiwa, Ht,b'hti-mii, 31e1 ( 1635. 1709). A Dutch Landscape Painter. His Birth Place Is Unknown, Although Seven Towns. Amster Darn Among Them, Claim The Honor. The Date Of Birth, 1035, Is Verified By The Statement In The Record Of His Marriage At Amsterdam. Octo Ber 2, Ic08. That He Was ...
Hoboken
Ho'boken. A City In 'hudson County, N. J., On The Hudson River. Opposite New York. Of Which It Is A Suburb, And Adjoining Jersey City. It Is The Terminus Of The North German Lloyd, Netherlands-american, And Thingvalla Steamship Lines, And Of The Delaware, Lackawanna And Ii Estern Lia It Read ...
Hobson
Hob'son, Jon N Atkinson ( 1858—). An English Educator And Author, Born At Derby. ]le Was Educated At Lincoln College. Oxford: From Isso To Iss7 Was Classical Master In Schools At Faversham (kent) ) And Exeter, And From Iss7 To 1897 Was Lecturer In English Literature And Economies For The ...
Hockey
Hockey (also Y. Hook, Y, Apparently From Hook• In Allusion To The Hooked Club With Game Is Played). .a Game Played By Opposing Teams Of Eleven 0:101, 110w (11v Idea Into Live Forwards, Three Half-backs, Two Backs. And A Goa•keeper, On A Ground One Hundred Yards Long By Fifty Or ...
Hoeven
Hoeven, (lioo•'en), .tan Van Der (1802-6s). A Distinguished Dutch Naturalist. Ile Was Born In Rotterdam; Studied Medicine And Natural History At Leyden And Paris; Be Came Professor Of At Leyden In 1826, And Held This Position Until His Death. Ilk Most Important Work Is His Windhoek Der Dierkunde 12 Vols., ...
Hofer
Hofer, }wier, Andreas (1767-1810). A Patriot Leader Of Tyrol. He Was Born At Sankt Leonhard, In The Valley Of Passeier, November 22, 1767. His Father Was Landlord Of The Inn `am Sand,' And The Son• Carried On The Busi Ness, Becoming Known As The `sandwirt: In 1796 Hofer Led A ...
Hofmann
Hofmann, Hiwinan. August Wilhelm Von (181s-92). A Distinguished German Chemist, Horn At Giessen. After Obtaining The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, He Became Assistant To T,iebig In The Giessen Laboratory, And In 1843 Became Professor Of Chemistry In The University Of Bonn. In The Same Year The Royal College Of ...
Hog Cholera
Hog Cholera. A Virulent Contagious Dis Ease Of Hogs, Due To The Presence Of A Pathogenic Bacillus In Tine Alimentary Tract. The Term Has Been Used To Cover At Least Two Diseases, True Hog Cholera And Swine Plague (q.v.). Some Authors Have Attempted To Distinguish Four Or Five Dis Eases ...
Hogarth
Hogarth, Wit.r.i.sist (1697-1764). An Eng Lish Painter And Engraver, Horn In London. No Vember 10. 1697, Llis Father Was An Unsuccessful Schoolmaster, Who Was Also A Hack Writer And Corrector For The Press. At The Age Of Seventeen, Hogarth Was Apprenticed To A Silversmith For Whom He Made Designs For ...
Hognose
Hognose. A Harmless American Serpent, Remarkable For Its Blunt Snout And Curious Man Ncrs. Three Species Form The Colubrine Genus Ileterodon, All Confined To North America, Ex Clusive Of The Pacific Coast And Mexico. The Best Known Species (ileterodon Platyrbinus) Is One Of Our Most Common And Widespread Snakes. It ...
Hohenstaufen
Hohenstaufen, Wen Stou'fen. A Princely House Of Swabia. In Germany, Which Held Possession Of The German Imperial Throne From 1138 To 1254. The Family Traced Its Descent From Frederick Of Buren, Who Lived About The Middle Of The Eleventh Century, And Whose Son, Frederick Of Stanfen, Built The Castle From ...
Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern. The Family Name Of The Royal House Of Prussia• In Which Has Been Vested Also. Since January Is, 1871, The Dignity Of T:erman Emperor. The Name Is Derived From The Ancestral Castle Zollern. Or Hohenzollern. In Swabia (see Preceding Article). The Origin Of The House Is Involved In Obscurity, ...
Hoiriis
Hoiriis (lat., From Gk. `l1 At, Egyptian Hcir). An Egyptian Deity. His Name Nor (u) Is By Some Scholars Explained As Meaning 'the Su Perior, Highest,' But This Is An Improbable Etv Mology, Not More Probable. Perhaps. Than The Earlier Comparison With Hebrew Or, 'light,' Which Is Generally Ridiculed At ...
Holarctic Region
Holarctic Region( From Nk. Vos. ]roles, Entire Cipicrik6s, Arktikos, Northern. From Dpk• T 0 T. (1 (1r, Bear). A Division In Zo;;geography, Defined In Two Senses: Ill The Larger Sense The Term Is Used. Unh Appily. As At Synonym For 'aretliglea.' (st `e 111 1111 1111n Ur _\ Xotal.s And ...
Holbein
Holbein, Hans, The Elder (c. 1460 1524). A Noted German Painter, Whose Reputa Tion Was For A Long Time Overshadowed By That Of His Celebrated Son, Hans The Younger, To Whom Most) Of The Eider Master's Finest Productions Were Formerly Attributed. But Little Is Known Of His Life. He Was ...
Holbein
Holbein, The Younger (1497-1543). _\ German Painter And Designer. One Of The Chief Masters Of The German Ilenaissanee. Ile Was A Soon Of Hans Llolbein The Elder, And Was Horn At Augsburg, Where He Studied With His Father And With Ilans Itur!..kmair. Two Of The Works Which He Probably Painted ...
Holberg
Holberg, Hiwh6rn. Ludnic, Baron (1684 )754). A Danish Poet, Novelist. And Historian, Horn At Bergen. Norway. Ile Is Called The 'father Of Danish Comedy.' Left An Orphan In Child Hood, He Proved An Eager Student In Spite Of Poverty And Diseouragements, And Sup Ported Himself Precariously As Tutor For Some ...
Holiday As
Holiday (as. Halo (law, Holy Day). A Day Set Apart As A Religious Anniversary, Or For The Purpose Of Commemorating Some Extraordinary Event. Or Of Honoring The Memory Of A Distin Guished Person. As A Rule, Holidays Are Occasions For Rejoicing. People Are Expected To Observe Them "with The Voice ...
Holkar
Holkar, Hi,yk9r. The Name Of A Powerful Mahratta Family, Later Adopted As A Title By The Rulers Of Indore, One Of The Native States Of Cen Tral India. The Founder Of The Family Was Mul Liar Rao Liolkar, Who Was Born In The Deccan In 1693, And Having Gained By ...
Holles
Holles, Hidz. I)enzil.. Lord (159916801. An English Statesman, Born At Ilangliton. Notting Hamshire. Lie Was A Inemher Of Parliament For Saint Michael, Cornwall, In 1624. And Live Years Afterwards Was One Of Two Members Who Forced The Speaker To Keep His Seat When He Strove To Obey Charles I, By ...
Holly
Holly (older Fallen, From As. Holen: Con Nected With Ir. Euilenn, Gael, Et/moan, Welsh Ce/yn, Holly, And Also With 011g. Hulis. Hull, Ger. //u/se, Holly, Skt. Solo, Staff ), /if X. A Genus Of Trees And Shrubs Of The Natural Order 'hebrew, Chiefly Natives Of Temperate Climates; With Ever Green, ...
Holmes
Holmes, I )lit Eit Wen Dell ( 1809-94 ) . An American Man Of Letters. Born At Cambridge, Mass.. August 29. 1809, Son Of The Bev. Abiel Ilolmes (q.v.). Holmes Was Brought Up In The Orthodox Faith, Was Sent To Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., For His Preliminary Education, And Graduated ...
Holothtprian
Hol'otht.prian (from Lat. Holo F U Ri Ton, Ck. (ii.,0,,61nov, Water-polyp; Probably From Imos% /lotus. Entire 4- 00iploc, Fhuurios, Thus H Uu Rus, Impetuous). .111 Echinoderm Of The Class I Lot Othuroidea, Easily Recognized By The Soft Body, Generally Worm-like Form, And Circle Of Tentacles About The Mouth. The Inadreporic ...
Holtzmann
Holtzmann, Bults'tnitn, Adolf (1810-70). A German Philologist, Born At Karlsruhe. He Studied Theology At Berlin And Was For A Short Time Vicar At, Kandern. In 1832 He Renewed His Studies At Munich And Later At Paris, And Made A Specialty Of Old Germanic Dialects And Sanskrit. In 1852 He Was ...
Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance. A League Formed After The Fall Of Napoleon, At The Instance Of Alexander 1. Of Russia, By The Sovereigns Of Russia, Austria, And Prussia, Nominally To Regulate The Relations Of The States Of Christendom By The Principles Of Christian Charity. As It Formed Itself In The Mind Of ...
Holy Family
Holy Family. The Name Given In Art To Representations Of The Virgin And The Infant Saviour And Their Attendants. Th, Such Composition Is That In The Cata•ondi Of Saint Calixtus In Rome, With The Prophet Isaiah. The Virgin Is Represented Sitting On A Seat, Which Soon Became A Throne, The ...
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire. The Name Now Given To The Empire Erected By Charles The Croat (q.v.), King Of The Franks, In Western Europe, Usually Dated From His Coronation, At Rome. By Pope Len Ill. In Roo; Or. More Technieally, To This Empire As Revived In 962 By Otho The Great ...
Holy Sepulchre
Holy Sepulchre. The Place Where Jesus Was Entombed. .:\ccording To The New Testament Data, The Sites Of The Crucifixion And Burial Of Jesus Were Not Far Apart (john Xix. 41). Out Side Jerusalem (itch. Xiii. 12), And Near A Road (mark Xv. 29; Alan.. Xxvii. 3(t). The Tooth It Self ...
Holy Water
Holy Water (lat. Aqua Benudietu). Water Blessed By A Priest For Religious Uses, And Employed In The Roman Catholic And Oriental Churches. In Most Ancient Religious. The Use Of Lustral Or Purifying Water Not Only Formed Part Of The Public Worship, But Also Entered Largely Into The Personal Acts Of ...
Holy Week
Holy Week. The Week Immediately Pre Ceding Easter. And Especially Consecrated To The Commemoration Of The Passion Of Christ. In The Roman Catholic Church. The Special Characteris Tics Of The Celebration Of The Holy Week Are In Creased Solemnity And Gloom, Penitential Rigor, And Mourning. If Any Of The Ordinary ...
Holyoake
Hol'yoake. Cront;f: ,10,con (1g17 1906 ). An English Writer, Lecturer, And Reformer, Particularly Identified With The 'cooperative Mt I% Ment: Ile Was Born In Birmingham. England; Was Educated At The Mechanics' Institution There, Taught Mathematics For A Time, And While Still Young Hecame Widely Known As A Radieal In Poli ...
Holyoke
Holyoke, Lird'yok. A City In Ilampden County, \lass.. S Miles North Of Springfield ; On The Connecticut River. And On The Boston And And The New York, New Haven And Dartford Railroads (map: Massachusetts, 11 3). It Was Originally A Part Of West Springfield, And Was Incorporated As The Third ...
Home Rule
Home Rule. A Term In British Polities, Designating The Particular Movement. Begun In 1870, To Secure For Ireland A Local Legislature, And Thus Recognize And Satisfy The Persistent Sentiment Of Irish Nationality. The Question Of Home Rule, Ignored By Pitt In The Act Of Union• Of 1800, Was Revived By ...
Homer
Homer (lat., From Gk.'ompos). A Mime For The Early Epic Poetry Of (:recce. The Less Critical Of The Ancients Attributed To Homer Many Minor Poems, As The Hymns. The Maryitcs, The Late Batrachomyomachia (battle Of The Frogs And Mice), And Many Of The Lost So-called Cyclic Epics, Dealing With The ...
Homestead Laws
Homestead Laws. Homestead Laws Are Of Two Classes: Those Enacted By Congress And Those Enacted By State Legislatures. The Primary Object Of The First Class Is To Enable Citizen, With Out Capital To Acquire Homes. The Main Object Of The Second Class Is To Secure Homes. Once Ac Quired, Against ...
Homicide
Homicide (tiv.. Fr. Homicide, From Lat. Manslaughter. From Porno, Man 4 Ra.flcre. To Kill). The Killing Of One Human Tieing By The Aid. Procurement. Or Omission Of Another. Iu Primitive Communities, We Find That It Does Not Subject The Slayer To Criminal Prosecution By The State. It Is Thought Of. ...
Homiliarium Il
Homilia'rium (\il_ From Lat. Horn Ilia, Gk. 6ut2.1a, Homilia, Conversation. Homily). A Collection Of Homilies For The Use Of The Clergy Either To Read To Their Congregations Or For Their Own Edification. Such Collections Were In Use From The Sixth Century. For The Use Of Those Clergy Who Were Unable ...
Homology
Homology (from Gk. Op.oxey/a, Homologia, Conformity, From 60no-yos, Bon °logos, Harmoniz Ing, From 6,u6s, Homos, Same + -x0-yla, -login, Account, From Xl-yco, Legein, To Say). (i) In Biology, A Term Used To Indicate Structural Co•re Spondence Based On Blood-relationship, As Op Posed To Analogy, Which Is Applied To Functional Resemblance, ...
Homoousion
Homoousion, (gk. 6p.00a1 0ww, Ii Whom:sion , La]. Humus, Same Is-wiley). A Term Of Greek Theology. Employed Against The Arians At The Council Of Niewa (a.d. 13•5). To Denote That In The Doctrine Of The Trinity The Son Is "of The Same E,ssence For Substance] With The Father." Aceording To ...
Hon Shiu
Hon-shiu, Lirat'sbyrv. The Most Important Of The Grump Of Islands Constituting The Empire Of .japan. See Ilonno. Litait'hini. Johann Nii:ot.aus Von (1701-90). Cerinan Roman Catholic Prel Ate And Writer. He Was Born At Treves, January 27, 1701. He Was Educated In The Jesuit School Of His Native City, Studied Canon ...
Honcyrius
Honcyrius. The Name Of Four Popes And One Ant Ipope.-110nor11•8 I., Pope 625-38. Ile Was Horn Of A Consular Faimly In Campania. Of His Early History Little Is Known. Except That Lie Took An Active Part In Bringing To A Close The Dis Putes Which Arose In Northern Italy About ...
Hondo
Hondo, Hen'di.,, Or Hon-shiu. Iitr'shy(7_7' (chino-japanese, Chief Island). The Name Of The Chief Island Of The Empire Of Japan, Often, But Incorrectly, Callej Nippon Or Nip1ton (nlap: Japan, E (o). Nippon Is Not The Name Of Any One Island. But Of The Entire Japanese Empire. The Application Of The Erroneous ...
Hondt
Hondt, Hinut, Hond, Or Hondius. A Flemish Family Of And Engravers. Jo Noct's Nr .lossr: (1540-16111 Was Born At Waek En. To Avoid The Troubles In The Netherlands, Then In The Throes Of The War With Spain, He Went. To England And Beeanie An Engraver Of Maps And A Maker ...
Honduras
Honduras, Liein-drs7'rils, Sp. Pron. On-diro' Ries. A Republic Of Central America, Bounded By The Caribbean Sea On The North And Northeast, Nicaragua On The Southeast. Salvador And The Paeilie Ocean On The Southwest, And Guatemala On The West (nlap: Central Annerieit, I) 3). .area, Estimated At Over •6,000 Square Miles. ...
Honey As
Honey (as. Hunig, Oiig. Honag, Honang, Ger. Honig, Of Uncertain Origin). A Thick, Sweet Liquid, Of More Or Less Pronounced Flavor. Pro Duced By Bees Of Various Kinds And By Other Insects. The Neuter Or Working Bees Gather The Nectar From The Nectaries Of Flowers (and Other Sweet Substances If ...
Honeydew
Honeydew. A Term Applied To The Sweet Ish Secretion Which Under Certain Conditions Drips From The Water-pores Of The Leaves Of Some Trees. It Is A Form Of 'bleeding' Appears Only When An Abundant Supply Of Moisture (re Ducing Evaporation) And A High Temperature Per Mit The Development Of A ...
Honeysuckle As
Honeysuckle (as. Hunisuee, Hunisuge, From Hunig, Honey + Skean, Sagan, Ohg. Sager, Ger. Sauqen, Lat. Sugere, To Suck). Lonieera. A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Capri Foliaecte. The Species Number One Hundred Or More, All Of Which Are Indigenous In The North Ern Hemisphere. They Are Shrubs, Often ...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Hang Kang (chin., Fragrant Streams). An Island Belonging To Great Britain, Lying Of The Southeast Coast Of China, From Which It Is Separated By A Narrow Channel (one-fourth Mile At Its Narrowest), Known As Ly-c-.11un Or 'carplish Pass.' At The Mouth Of The Chukiang Or Pearl River (nap: ...
Honolulu
Honolulu, Lire6-1571:176. The Capital And Commercial Centre Of The Hawaiian Islands, Sit Uated On The Southern Coast Of The Island Of Oahu, In 21° 18' N. Latitude And 157° 55' Nv. Longitude. 20s9 Miles Southwest Of San Francisco (\lap: Hawaii. D 2). It Is Wholly A Modern Town, Surrounded By ...
Honorius
Honorius, Fl.%vit. S 384-423). Boman Emperor Of The West From 395 To 42:i, Second Son Of Theodosius The 1;reat. Ile Was Born In 3s4. On The Death Of His Father, 395. The Empire Was Divided Into Two Parts, Llonorins Receiving The Western Half, With Polne As His Capital, While His ...
Hood
Hood, Nonix. The Hero Of A Group Of English Ballads, Which Represent Him As An Ma'am, Dwelling In Sherwood Forest, Ni Iltinghainshire. Or In Darn-aide, A Woodland District In The West Riding Of Yorkshire-. The Earliest Known Men Tion Of Him Is In The Second Version Of L'iers I'lotratati I ...
Hoof As
Hoof ( As. Kg*, Hoof, Ger. Hut"; Coin Fleeted With Ochureh Slay. Kopyto, Hoof. Or With Av. Safe, Hoof1. The Exterior Homy Covering Of The (toot Of Many Animals. The Healthy Soundness Of The Horse's Foot Is Mainly Preserved By Permitting It To Grow Uninjured By The Rasp And Knife; ...
Hoofing Cough
Hoofing Cough. See Wlloorqxc Coron. Hoopoe (obsolete Boopoop. Reduplication Of Hoop. Fr. Huppc. Of. /mine, Huge. From Lat. Upapo, Hoopoe). One Of A Small And Singular Group Of Birds Of The Warmer Parts Of The Old Nvorld, Which Take Both The?r Common And Sys Tematic Names (genus [pupa, Family I_ ...
Hooker
Hooker, Josern (1814-79). A Distinguished American Soldier. He Was Horn At Hadley. Mass.. November 13, 1814; Graduated At West Point In 1837 In The Same Class With Jabal Early And Braxton Bragg, And Was Assigned To The First Artillery. Ile Served In Florida And On The _maine Frontier In 1637-40, ...
Hooker_2
Hooker, Rictlano (c.15531600). An Eng Lish Clergyman, Author Of The Most Famous Existing Treatise On The Constitution Of The Church Of England. Ile Was Born At Exeter, In The Year 1553 Or 1554, Of Poor Parents. He Was A Grave, Bashful, And Quiet Boy. Diligent In His Studies. And Quick ...
Hooker_3
Hooker, Ttionias (e.13sti-10-17). A Now England Clergyman, The Real Founder Of The T ',doily Of Connecticut. Lit Was Horn At Slarkfield, England. And Was Educated At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Where He Took The Degree Of 11.a. Iu 100s, And That Of Sia. In Nil After Holding A Fellowship For Some ...
Hooker_4
Hooker, Sir Wii.1.1..1)1 •e‘cizson A Velehl'a Fell K111.01.11 Botanist. He Was Born Norwich. And Studied Brandies Of Natural History As A Pastime During His Youth. In 19,11 He Pub Lished His First Work, Journal Of A Tour In Lee Lan(1, Of Which A Edition •a; Demanded In 1813. From That ...
Hoosier State
Hoosier State. Indiana. See States, Popular Names Of. Hop (from Mllutch Hoppe, Dutch Hop, Ohg. Hopfo, Ger. Hopfen, Hop, Of Doubtful Origin), Hu Mulus Lupulus. A Perennial Plant Which Be Longs To The Urtieace•, Or Nettle Family. The Single Species, A Native Of America And Eng Land, Where It Is ...
Hop Insects
Hop-insects. The Most Destructive In Sect Enemy Of The Hop Crop Is The Bop-aphis. Other Species Are Of Less Importance, But They Sometimes Do Considerable Damage To The Plant. The Hop-grub Or Hop-plant Borer (gortyna Manis) Is The Larva Of A Noctuid Moth Which Lays Its Eggs In The Early ...
Hop Tree
Hop-tree (pt,lea Trifoliuta). An Ameri Can Shrub Of The Rue Family, Called Also Shrubby Trefoil, Wafer-ash, And Wingspeed, Grows In Rocky Places From Pennsylvania To Minnesota And Southward. It Usually Grows From 6 To 10 Feet In Height, But When Well Trimmed And Culti Vated Sometimes Attains A Height Of ...