HIP 



HIP 



of a parish is bound to perform certam 

 duties for that purpose. 



HIGH water, that state of the tides 

 when they have flowed to the greatest 

 height, or have ceased to flow. It is high- 

 water several minutes, as many as between 

 15 and 30, before it begins to ebb again. 

 The mode of computing high-water is by 

 having the moon's age given, of whieh 

 take *, and adding it to the time of high- 

 water on the day of full or change, and 

 the sum is nearly equal to the time of 

 high water. Thus, for the present day, 

 the 29th of May, it was new moon, or 

 change, on the 25th, of course, the moon 

 is four days old ; and on the 25th it was 

 high-water at about two o'clock ; there- 

 fore 4 X | H- 2 = 5* 1 12% or to about 

 twelve minutes after five. 



HILLIA, in botany, so named in honour 

 of Sir John Hill, M. D. author of many 

 works in botany, a genus of the Hexan- 

 dria Monogynia class and order. Natural 

 order of Contortae. Rubiaceae, Jussieu. 

 Essential character : calyx double, lower 

 six-leaved ; corolla very long, contorted ; 

 capsule two-celled, two-valved, crowned; 

 seeds downy. There are two species, 

 viz. H. longiflora, and H. tetrandria ; both 

 natives of Jamaica. 



HIN, a Hebrew measure of capacity for 

 things liquid, containing the sixth part of 

 an epha, or one gallon two pints, English 

 measure. 



HIND, a female stag in the third year 

 of its age. See CERVUS. 



HINGES, the joints on which gates, 

 doors, lids, folds of tables, 8cc. hang, and 

 turn in opening, shutting or folding. They 

 are of different denominations, as butts, 

 used by the joiners for hanging table- 

 leaves, &c. ; casement, for hanging case- 

 ments upon dove-tails ; and esses, for light 

 doors and lockers; garnet-cross, for 

 hanging large doors or heavy scuttles in 

 ships ; port, for hanging ships' ports ; 

 scuttle, particularly used for scuttles. 

 Besides these, there are many others of 

 different forms and uses, distinguished by 

 different names. 



HIPS, in building*, those pieces of tim- 

 ber placed at the corner of a roof. 



HIP roof, among carp enters, called also 

 Italian roof, is a roof which has neither 

 gable-head, shread-head, nor jerkin-head 

 (by which is meant such heads as are 

 both gable and hip at the same end:) for 

 it is a gable, or upright, as high as the 

 collar-beam, and then there are two short 

 hips, which shut up with their tops to the 

 tops of a pair of rafters, which country 

 carpenters call singlars. A hip-roof has 



rafters as long, and with the angles of the 

 foot, &c. at the ends of buildings, as it has 

 at the sides ; and the feet of the rafters, 

 at the ends of such buildings as have hip- 

 roofs, stand on the same plane, viz- pa- 

 rallel with the horizon, and at the same 

 height from the foundation, with rafters 

 on the sides of the roofs. 



HIPPIA, in botany, a genus of the Syn- 

 genesia Polygamia Necessaria class and 

 order. Natural order of Composite Dis* 

 coideae. Corymbiferae, Jussieu. Essential 

 character : calyx hemispherical, subim- 

 bricate, corollets of the ray ten, obsolete, 

 subtrifid ; seeds with very broad margins; 

 naked ; down none ; receptacle naked. 

 There are three species. 



HIPPOBOSCA, in natural history, a 

 genus of insects of the order Diptera. 

 Mouth with a short cylindrical, straight, 

 two-valved sucker ; the valves are equal ; 

 antennae filiform ; feet armed with nume- 

 rous claws ; body flat and hard ; stemma.. 

 ta none. There are five species, of which 

 the most familiar is H. equina, or horse- 

 fly ; head brown ; thorax brown, varied 

 with pale colour ; wings crossing each 

 other, hyaline with a brown spot near the 

 outer margin ; legs annulate with yellow 

 and brown. This insect is exceedingly 

 troublesome to horses : it hides itself un- 

 der the hairs, and fixes to the skin by 

 means of their crooked nails. It varies 

 in size, in different districts, but is largest 

 in the southern and warm climates. The 

 skin of the insect is of a strong and coria- 

 ceous nature; hence it may be pressed to 

 a considerable degree, without being ap- 

 parently injured. The female of this in- 

 sect deposits a single egg at distant inter- 

 vals ; but as the egg undergoes no further 

 alteration of form, it has been regarded 

 rather as a pupa than an egg; and, if 

 opened after a certain period, it exhibits" 

 the fly in its unadvanced state, and of a 

 white colour. It not unfrequently lies 

 during the whole winter in this state, the 

 fly emerging in the following summer. H. 

 avicularia is observed on the bodies of 

 various birds, which it infests. H. hirun- 

 dinis is, as its name imports, to be found 

 in the nests and on the bodies of swallows, 

 swifts, and martins. H. ovina is without 

 wings ; it is known by the name of the 

 sheep-tick, and is found imbedded in the 

 wool of these animals; this is so tenaceous 

 of life, that it has been found in wool that 

 has been a long time packed up in fleeces. 



HIPPOCRATEA, in botany, so named 

 in memory of Hippocrates, the famous 

 Greek physician ; a genus of the Trian- 

 dria Monogynia class and order. Natural 



