486 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language 
HOMINY or HOMMONY ; “ food made of maize broken, but coarse, and 
boiled.” Wedst. Hence a vulgar comparison—As coarse as hominy. 
HONORARY. Some writers among us frequently use this adjective instead of 
honorable: Ex. It was highly Aonorary to him. 
Zo HOPE. “ We may /ojsie the assistance of God. The word Sor or to receive 
is wanting. In this instance Aofe, which is a neuter verb, is turned into an 
active verb, and not very properly as to the objective term, assistance. It 
must be admitted, however, that in some old English poets, hope is some- 
times used as an active verb, but it is contrary to modern practice.” With- 
ersfioon’s Druid, No. 5. This verb, I think, would not be used in the 
manner above pointed out, by any American writer of the present day. 
HORSE-COLT. “ We frequently see in advertisements [in America] these 
terms, horse colt, mare colt, &c. A horse colt is simply a colf, a mare colt 
merely a filly.” Port Folio, new series, vol. ii. p. 309. 
HUB; the nave of a wheel. Used in New England. It is a frrovinciad 
word in England: “Huds, naves of wheels.” Marshali’s Rural Econ. Mid 
land Counties of England. It is not in ee dictionaries. 
t a: 
ILLY; illadv. This word rare Ha wn 
sation and in writing. It is not to be found in the English dictionaries, 
nor is it now used by English authors, the word i// being always employed 
by them both as an adverd and an adjective, just as the term weil is. 
dilly has been thought by some persons to be of American origin ; but this 
is not the fact. A friend has given me the following British authority : 
“ He then set himself wholly to God unfeignedly, and to do all that was 
possible in that little remainder of his life which was before him, to redeem 
those great portions of it, that he formerly so illy employed.” Bishop Bur- 
nets Accouns of the Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester, as reprinted. 
in the Christian Monitor, No. XX. p. 112. I was also told some time ago, 
by a friend, that it was used by Steele in the Spectator ; but the numéer, 
in which it was used, was not recollected. I have not been able to find it 
in any part of that work. Ainsworth has illy in the Latin part of his dic- 
tionary, (under the words mele and malim, y but in the English part he 
has il/ only. 
