These notions young students in physick derive from their backney authors. Harvey To HACKNEY. v. a. [from the noun.] To practise in one thing; to accustom, as to the road. He is long backney'd in the ways of men. geon. Shakspeare. HACQUETON. n. s. [haquet, old French, a little horse.] Some piece of armour. You may see the very fashion of the Irish horseman in his kong hose, riding shoes of costly cordwain, his hacqueton, and his haberSpenser's State of Ireland. HAD. The preterit and part. pass. of have. I had better, you had better, &c. means the same as, it would be better for me or you; or, it would be more eligible: it is always used potentially, not indicatively: nor is have ever used to that import. We say likewise, it had been bet ter or worse. I bad rather be a country servant maid, Than a great queen with this condition. Shaks. Had we not better leave this Utica, To arm Numidia in our cause? Addison. HADDOCK. n. s. [hadot, French.] A sea fish of the cod kind, but small. The coast is plentifully stored with pilchards, herrings, and baddocks. Carew. HAFT. n. n. [hært, Saxon; heft, Dutch; from To have or hold.] A handle; that part of any instrument that is taken into the hand. This brandish'd dagger I'll bury to the baft in her fair breast. Dryden. These extremities of the joints are the hafts Dryden. and handles of the members. A needle is a simple body, being only made of steel; but a sword is a compound, because its baft or handle is made of materials different from the blade. Watts' Logick. To HAFT. v. a. [from the noun.] To set in a haft.. Ainsworth. HAG... [hæzerre, a goblin, Saxon; beckle, a witch, Dutch.] 1. A fury; a she-monster. Thus spoke th' impatient prince, and made a pause: His foul bags rais'd their heads, and clapt their hands; And all the powers of hell, in full applause, Flourish'd their snakes and tost their flaming brands. Crashaw. 2. A witch; an enchantress. Out of my door, you witch! you hag, you baggage, you poulcat, you runnion. 3. An old ugly woman. Shaksp. Such affectations may become the young; But thou old bag of threescore years and three, Is shewing of thy parts in Greek for thee? Dryden. To HAG. v. a. [from the noun.] To torment; to harrass with vain terrour. That makes them in the dark see visions, And bag themselves with apparitions. Hudib. She's too disdainful; Sbaksp. 2. [hager, German] Lean; rugged'; perhaps, ugly. To this sense I have put the following passage; for the author ought to have written bagord. A bagged carion of a wolf, and a jolly sort of dog, with good flesh upon 's back, fell into company together. L'Estrange. Deformed with passion; wildly disordered. 3. Fearful besides of what in sight had pass'd, His hands and bagard eyes to heav'n he cast. Dryden HA'GGARDLY. adv. [from baggard.] Deformedly; uglily. For her the rich Arabia sweats her gum; And precious oils from distant Indies come, How baggardly soe'er she looks at home. Dryd HA'GGESS. n. s. [from bog or back.] A mass of meat, generally pork chopped, and enclosed in a membrane. In Scotland it is commonly made in a sheep's maw of the entrails of the same animal, cut small, with suet and spices. HAGGISH. adj. [from bag.] Of the na ture of a hag; deformed; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. Shakspeare To HAGGLE. v. a. [corrupted from hackle or back.] To cut; to chop; to mangle: always in a bad sense. Suffolk first died, and York all baggled o'er, Comes to him where in gore he lay insteep Shakspeare To HAGGLE. V. n. horrid. To be tedious in a bargain; to be long in coming to the price. HAGGLER. n. s. [from haggle.] How are superstitious men bagged out of their 1. One that cuts. wits with the fancy of omens, tales, and visions! L'Estrange. HACARD, adj. [bagard, French.] 2. One that is tardy in bargaining. HAGIOGRAPHER. 7.5. [äy, and ygápu.] A holy writer. The Jews divide the holy scriptures of the old testament into the law, the prophets, and the bagiographers. HAH. interj. An expression of sudden effort. Her coats tuck'd up, and all her motions just, She stamps, and then cries bab! at ev'ry thrust. HAIL. n. s. [hazel, Saxon.] rain frozen in their falling. Dryden. Drops of Locke. Thunder mix'd with bail, Hail mix'd with fire, must rend th' Égyptian sky, Milton. HAIL. v.. To pour down hail. My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation when it shall bail, coming down on the forest. Isaiah. HAIL. interj. [heel, health, Saxon: bail, therefore, is the same as salve of the Latins, or sale of the Greeks, health be to you. A term of salutation now used only in poetry; health be to you. It is used likewise to things inanimate. Hail, bail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil. Shakspeare. Her sick head is bound about with clouds: It does not look as it would have a bail, Or health wish'd in it, as on other morns. Ben Jonson Long after to blest Mary, second Eve. Milton. Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells; bail horrors; bail Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor! Milton. All bail, he cry'd, thy country's grace and love; Once first of men below, now first of birds above. Dryden. Hail to the sun! from whose returning light The cheerful soldier's arms new lustre take. Rowe. To HAIL. v. a. [from the noun.] To salute; to call to. A galley drawing near unto the shore, was bailed by a Turk, accompanied with a troop of horsemen. Knolles. Thrice call upon my name, thrice beat your breast, And bail me thrice to everlasting rest. Dryden. HAILSHOT. n. s. [hail and shot.] Small shot scattered like hail. The master of the artillery did visit them sharply with murdering bailsbot, from the pieces mounted towards the top of the hill. Hayward. HAILSTONE. n. s. [hail and stone.] A particle or single ball of hail. You are no surer, no, Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, Or bailstone in the sun. Shaksp. Hard bailstones lie not thicker on the plain, Nor shaken oaks such show'rs of acorns rain. Dryden. we examine the hairs with a microscope we find that they have each a round bulbous root, which lies pretty deep in the skin, and which draws their nourishment from the surrounding humours; that each hair consists of five or six others, wrapt up in a common tegument or tube. They grow as the nails do, each part near the root thrusting forward that which is immediately above it, and not by any liquor running along the hair in tubes, as plants grow. Quincy. My fleece of woolly hair uncurls. Shaksp Shall the difference of bair only, on the skin, be a mark of a different internal constitution between a changeling and a drill? Locker 2. A single hair. Naughty lady, These bairs which thou do'st ravish from my chin, Will quicken and accuse thee. Shaksp Which, like the courser's bair, hath yet but life, And not a serpent's poison 3. Any thing proverbially small. If thou tak'st more 4. Shaksp Or less than just a pound; if the scale turn But in the estimation of a bair, Thou diest. Shaksp. Mercht. of Venise, He judges to a bair of little indecencies, and knows better than any man what is not to be written. Dryden Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. He is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bo dies: if you should fight, you go against the bair of your profession. Shakspeare. HAIRBEL. n. s. A flower; the hyacinth. HAIRBRAINED. adj. [This should rather be written barebrained, unconstant, unsettled, wild as a bare.] Wild; irregular; unsteady. Let's leave this town; for they are bairbrain'd slaves, And hunger will enforce them be more eager. HAIRBREADTH. N.s. [hair and breadth.] Shakspeare A very small distance; the diameter of a hair. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed could sling stones at an bairbreadth, and not miss. HA'ILY. adj. [from bail.] Consisting of HAIRLA CE. n. s. [hair and lace.] The Advance thy balberd higher than my breast. Shakspeare. Our balberds did shut up his passage Shaksp. Four knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band, Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand, Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain. Pope. HALBERDIER. n. s. [halberdier, French, fron halberd.] One who is armed with a halberd. The duchess appointed him a guard of thirty Balberdeers, in a livery of murrey and blue, to attend his person. Bacon. The king had only his balberdeers, and fewer of them than used to go with him. Clarendon. HALCYON. n.s. [bal yo, Latin.] A bird, of which it is said that she breeds in the sea, and that there is always a calm during her incubation. Such smiling rogues, as these, sooth ev'ry passion, Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their balcyon beaks With ev'ry gale and vary of their masters. Shakspeare. Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be, As balcyons brooding on a winter sea. Dryden. HALCYON, adj. [from the noun.] Placid; quiet; still; peaceful. When great Augustus made war's tempest cease, His balcyon days brought forth the arts of peace. Denbam. No man can expect eternal serenity and balcyon days from so incompetent and partial a cause, as the constant course of the sun in the equinoctial circle. Bentley. HALE. adj. [This should rather be written bail, from bal, health.] Healthy; sound; hearty; well complexioned. Who would not be disgusted with any recrea tion, in itself indifferent, if he should with bless be baled to it when he had no mind? Lock In all the tumults at Rome, though the people proceeded sometimes to pull and bi one another about, yet no blood was drawn, 't the time of the Gracchi. Swift HALER. n. 5. [from hale.] He who puls and hales. HALF. n. s. plural halves. [healy, Sax. and all the Teutonick dialects. The l is often not sounded.] 1. A moiety; one part of two; an equal part. 1 Samu An balf acre of land. Many might go to heaven with half the bour they go to hell, if they would venture the industry the right way. Ben Jo Well chosen friendship, the most noble Of virtues, all our joys makes double, And into halves divides our trouble. Denban Or what but riches is there known Which man can solely call his own; In which no creature goes his balf, Unless it be to squint and laugh? No mortal tongue can balf the beauty tell For none but hands divine could work so well Dryin HudBra Of our manufacture foreign markets to one balf, and the other balf were consumed amongst ourselves. Lit The council is made up balf out of the net families, and balf out of the plebeian. Ad Half the misery of life might be extinguished, would men alleviate the general curse by compassion. muted Addi Her beauty in thy softer balf Bury'd and lost, she ought to grieve. Pri proposed Natural was it for a prince, who had j to himself the empire of the world, not to reg lect the sea, the balf of his dominions. Arb 2. It sometimes has a plural signification when a number is divided. Dry Had the land selected of the best, Half had come hence, and let the world pro vide the rest. HALF. adu. 1. In part; equally. · I go with love and fortune, two blind guides, To lead my way; balf loth, and half consenting. Dryden. 2. It is much used in composition to signify a thing imperfect, as the following examples will show. HALF-BLOOD. n. s. One not born of the same father and mother. Which shall be heir of the two male twins, who by the dissection of the mother, were laid open to the world? Whether a sister by the balf-blood shall inherit before a brother's daughLocke. ter by the whole-blood? HALF-BLOODED. adj. [half and blood.] Mean; degenerate. Shaksp. The let alone lies not in your good will. With certain balf-caps and cold moving nods, Proud incroaching tyranny Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours Advance a half-faced sun striving to shine. Shak. This same balf-faced fellow, Shadow: give me this man: he presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shakspeare. HALF-HATCHED. adj. [half and hatch.] Imperfectly hatched. Here, thick as hailstones pour; Turnips, and half-batch'd eggs, a mingled show'r, Gay. Among the rabble rain. HALF-HEARD. adj. Imperfectly heard; not heard to an end. Not added years on years my task could close; Back to thy native islands might'st thou sail, And leave balf-heard the melancholy tale. Pope. HALF-MOON. n. s. 1. The moon in its appearance when at 2. Any thing in the figure of a half-moon, HALF-PENNY.n.s. plural half-pence. [half 1. A copper coin, of which two make a penny. Bardolf stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three half-pence. Shaksp. I thank you; and sure, dear friend, my thanks are too dear of a half-penny. He cheats for balf-pence, and he doffs his coat To save a farthing in a ferryboat. Sbaksp. Dryden. Swift. Never admit this pernicious coin, no not so much as one single balf-penny. 2. It has the force of an adjective conjoined with any thing of which it denotes the price. There shall be in England seven balf-penny Joaves sold for a penny. Shakspeare. You will wonder how Wood could get his majesty's broad seal for so great a sum of bad money, used to do. same favour, and make our own half-pente as we Swift. HALF-PIKE. n. s. [half and pike.] The small pike carried by officers. The various ways of paying the salute with Tatler. the balf-pike. HALF-PINT. n. s. [half and pint.] The fourth part of a quart. One balf-pint bottle serves them both to dine; And is at once their vinegar and wine. Pope. HALF-SCHOLAR. N. S. One imperfectly learned. Watts. We have many half-scholars now-a-days, and there is much confusion and inconsistency in the notions and opinions of some persons. HALF-SEAS over. A proverbial expression for any one far advanced. It is commonly used of one half drunk. I am half-seas o'er to death; And since I must die once, I would be loth cernment. The officers of the king's houshold had need be provident, both for his honour and thrift: they must look both ways, else they are but balfsighted. HALF-SPHERE. n. s. [half and sphere.] Hemisphere. Bacon. Let night grow blacker with thy plots; and At shewing but thy head forth, start away I find I'm but a half-strain'd villain yet, Dryden HALF-SWORD. n. 5. Close fight; within half the length of a sword. I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together. Shaksp. HALF-WAY. adv. [half and way.] In the middle. Fearless he sees, who is with virtue crown'd,! The tempest rage, and hears the thunder sound; Ever the same, let fortune smile or frown: Granville. bite. I would rather have trusted the refinement of our language, as to sound, to the judgment of the Swift. women than of balf-witted poets. Jack had passed for a poor, well-meaning, half-witted, crack-brained fellow: people were strangely surprised to find him in such a ro guery. Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. When half is added to any word noting personal qualities, it commonly notes contempt. HALIBUT. n. s. A sort of fish. Ains. and that the nobility here could not obtain the HA LIDOм. n. s. [halig dom, holy judg VOL. II. Q ૧ ment, or halig and dame, for lady.] By my balidem, quoth he, Ye a great master are in your degree. Hubberd. HA'LIMASS. 7. §. [ħalig and mass.] feast of All-souls. The She came adorned hither like sweet May; Sent back like balimass, or shortest day. S'ak. HA LITUOUS. adj. [balitus, Lat.] Vaporous; fumous. We speak of the atmosphere as of a peculiar thin and balituous liquor, much lighter than spirit of wine. Boyle. HALL. n. s. [hal, Saxon; balle, Dutch.] 1. A court of justice; as Westminster Hall. O lost too soon in yonder house or ball. Pope. 2. A manor-house so called, because in it were held courts for the tenants. Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the bull house, and the whole Addison. estate. 3. The public room of a corporation. That light we see is burning in my ball. Shakspeare. Milton. HALLELUJAH. n. s. [·mnbbn] Praise ye the Lord. A song of thanksgiving. Then shall thy saints Unfained hallelujabs to Thee sing, Milton. Singing those devout hymns and heavenly anthems, in which the church militant seems ambitious to emulate the triumphant, and echo back the solemn praises and hallelujabs of the celestial choirs. Boyle. HALLOO. interj. [The original of this word is controverted: some imagine it corrupted from a lui, to him! others from allons, let us go! and Skinner from baller, to draw. A word of encouragement when dogs are let loose on their game. Some popular chief, More noisy than the rest, but cries balloo, To HALLOO. v. n. [baler, French.] A cry more tuneable Was never balloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn. HALLUCINATION. n. s. [ballucinatio, Latin.] Eriour; blunder; mistake; folly. A wasting of flesh, without cause, is frequently termed a betwitched disease; but questionless a mere hallucination of the vulgar. Harvey. This must have been the ballucination of the transcriber, who probably mistook the dash of the I for a T. Addison HALM. n. s. [healm, Saxon.] Straw: pronounced hawm: which see. HALO. n, s. A red circle round the sun or moon. If the hail be a little flatted, the light transmitted may grow so strong, at a little less distance than that of twenty-six degrees, as to form a bal about the sun or moon; which bale, as often the hailstones are duly figured, may be coloured. Newton. I saw by reflexion, in a vessel of stagnathg water, three balos, crowns or rings of colours about the sun, like three little rainbows concen trick to his body. Newton HALSENING, adj. [hals, German; bass, Scottish, the neck.] Sounding harshlys inharmonious in the throat or tongue. Not in use. This balsexing horny name hath, as Cornute in Italy, opened a gap to the scoffs of many. Caree HA ́LSER. n. s. [from hals, neck, and reel, a rope. It is now in marine pronunciation corrupted to hawser.] A rópe less than a cable. A beechen mast then in the hollow base They hoisted, and with well-wreath'd balsers hoise Their white sails Chapmans |