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same form and fashion that is used for 

 drying malt. The hops must be spread 

 even upon the oast, a foot thick or more, 

 if the depth of the curb will allow it; but 

 care is to be taken not to overload the 

 oast, if the hops are green or wet. The 

 oast ought to be first wanned with a fire 

 before the hops are laid on, and then an 

 even steady fire must be kept under 

 them ; it must not be too fierce at first, 

 lest it scorch the hops ; nor must it be 

 suffered to sink or slacken, but rather be 

 increased till the hops are nearly dried, 

 .lest the moisture or sweat, which the fire 

 has raised, fall back or discolour them. 

 When they have lain about nine hours 

 they must be turned, and in two or three 

 bours more they may be taken off the 

 oast. It may be known when they are 

 well dried by the brittleness of the stalks, 

 and the easy falling off of the hop leaves. 

 As soon as the hops are taken off the 

 kiln, lay them in a room for three weeks 

 or a month, to cool, give, and toughen; 

 for if they are bagged immediately, they 

 will powder, but if they lie a while (and 

 the longer they lie the better, provided 

 they are covered close with blankets to 

 secure them from the air) they may be 

 bagged with more safety, as not being 

 liable to be broken to p'bwder in tread- 

 ing ; and this will make them bear tread- 

 ing the better, and the harder they are 

 trodden, the better they will keep. 



HOPS. By several statutes, regulations 

 are made for the curing of hops, &c. 

 which are placed under the inspection of 

 the officers of excise. 



HOPPER, a kind of basket, wherein 

 the seed-corn is carried at the time of 

 sowing. It is also used for the wooden 

 trough in a mill, into which the corn is 

 put to be ground. See MILL. 



HORARY, or HOUR CIRCLE of a globe, 

 is a small brazen circle, fixed upon the 

 brazen meridian, divided into twenty -four 

 hours, having an index moveable round 

 the axis of the globe, which, upon turn- 

 ing the globe fifteen degrees, will show 

 what places have the sun an hour before 

 or after us ; for instance, if the index of 

 the hour circle be set at the upper xn. 

 when the globe is rectified for London, 

 and the globe turned fifteen degrees from 

 east to west, the index will point at the 

 hour of 1 ; which shews that all places 

 under that meridian, and particularly Na- 

 ples, have the sun an hour sooner than 

 London has it : on the contrary, let the 

 index be set at the upper XH. again, and 

 the, globe be turned fifteen degrees from 



west to east, the index will point at XT, 

 because all places under that meridian, 

 particularly the Madeira islands, have 

 the sun an hour after London has i t. For 

 the several problems performable on the 

 globes, by means of the horary circle, see 

 GLOBES, use of. 



HOHART circles or lines, in dialling, are 

 the lines or circles which mark the hours 

 on sun-dials. See DIALLING. 



HORART motion of the earth, the arch it 

 describes in the space of an hour, which 

 is nearly fifteen degrees, though not accu- 

 rately so, as the earth moves with differ- 

 ent velocities, according to its greater or 

 lesser distance from the sun. Hence we 

 see the method of reducing motion into 

 time, and wee versa,- since 15 = 60', or 

 one hour, 1 = 4' : therefore the clocks 

 at places 15 east of London are one hour 

 faster than those at London ; and the 

 clocks at places 15 west of London are 

 one hour later than those at London, and 

 so in proportion. Thus, if 1 wish to know 

 what o'clock it is at Constantinople, and 

 also at Boston in North America, now it 

 is eight o'clock, A. M. here, I look to the 

 gazetteer, and find Constantinople to be 

 29 east of London, and Boston is 70 30' 

 west : to reduce these degrees to time, I 



29 

 divide each by 15, and I find == !*> 56") , 



70 30' 

 and -- =4 h 42m ; accordingly the time 



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at Constantinople is l h 56m before our 

 time, and at Boston it is 4 h 42m behind 

 it : that is, at eight o'clock in London it 

 will be 56 minutes after nine at Constan- 

 tinople, and at Boston it will be only 18 

 minutes past three o'clock. 



HORD, in geography, is used for a 

 company of wandering people, which 

 have no settled habitation, but stroll 

 about, dwelling in waggons or under 

 tents, to be ready to shift as soon as the 

 herbage, fruit, and the present province, 

 is eaten bare ; such are several tribes of 

 the Tartars, particularly those who inha- 

 bit beyond the Wolga, in the kingdoms 

 of Astracan and Bulgaria. A hord con- 

 sists of fifty or sixty tents, ranged in a 

 circle, leaving an open place in the mid- 

 dle. The inhabitants of each hord usu- 

 ally form a military company or troop, 

 the eldest whereof is commonly the cap- 

 tain,and depends on the general or prince 

 of the whole nation. 



HORDEUM, in botany, barley, a genus 

 of the Triandria Digynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Grasses. Essential cha- 



