HAL ‘ 
HALAVORD, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Comis; 16 miles W. of Biltain. 
HALBARD, or Hanzert, in the Art of War, an 
offenfive weapon, confifting of a fhaft, or fom five feet 
oe 8 ; ‘witha 8 fteel head, partly in form of a . 
word is formed "oF the German hal, a, ¢ and dard, 
hen chet. offius derives it from the Gerean hallebaert : 
oe hel, clarus, fplendens, and baert, ax. 
The aoa cr ae a common weapon in the army ; 
where there were companies of halberdeers. It is ftill car- 
ried by the ‘Seen of foo 
It is called the Danith ax, “boils firft bore by the Danes : 
they carried it on the left fhoulder. From the Danes it was 
derived to the Scots, and from the Scots to the Englith, 
and from them to the French. 
wCTALBERST TADT, in pa, sah - principality of 
Germany, extending from E. to W. ab 6 miles, and 
te is generally level, with See few hills. 
fame name, 
irches 56: 
of 
: is a provoft, 
fenior, and at ny four of whom are Catholics, the 
sel no is converted into the town- 
» among Farriers, piece 
Sodads three or four cine long, ere pale 
toe of ian sa a ee yak to hinder a lame 
in palatinate o 
HALDE, jean Baptist pu, in B 
been and arranging the letters fent by the fociety’s miflionaries 
The increafe of inhabitants: 
HAL 
This falt feems of the utmoft importance to the, water, i 
which it is contained, fince it can be fuppofed to contain ‘no 
other alkali, and wighinue an alkali it is not eafy to account! 
for its properties ; to which it may be added, that, by means: 
. the common alkali of tartar, and a folution of the pyrites, 
r even of iron, in an acid mixed with common water, @ 
Nigel may be made, very much refembling the natural Pyr.. 
mont water. 
Fetes weg i ot Kine-Fisner, in Ornithology. See 
LCEDO 
Haveyon-days, dies aleyonit, a phrafe that frequently 
occurs among writers, to denote atime of peac tran- 
quilhty. 
The expreffion takes its rife from a fea-fowl, called, 
— haleyon, ox aleyon, which is faid to build its ne 
out the winter folftice, when the weather is ufually “i 
pa to be ftilland calm. See oe 
cyo s, according to ancient tradition, are the 
feven days eens and as many after the —— folftice ; 
called alfo St. Martin’s Summer: thefe are s for 
calmnefs of the weather, which emboldens the ports to 
a a and brood its eggs on the rocks, on the very brink 
of the f 
Columella gives the denomination, haleyonii diesy to a num- 
ber of days commencing on the eighth of t he calends of 
March; on account mits ~ “hae ftillnefs of the Atlantic 
ocean, ‘dies ufually ob 
HALCZIN, in Conan hy, a town - Poland, itt the 
of Braclaw 
wy; zomiles E.S.E, Ww. 
at Paris in the 
of : 
different _ of the world. 
except as it is connected wit 
to father Le Tellier, the king’ s confeffo 
vaft empire that has ever appeared in Europe. - 
aware of the works of fir George Staunton and Barrow, but 
they never were in 
which occurred to 
our own langua Shut in an abridged ftate. 
year 1743, a hind him op entre eminen 
wearied i 
be 
; refting or upon his toe. . nefs, ry un uft He was author of 
er ; conftrain a lame horfe to tread, fome Latin poems ; ard was diftinguifhed as the editor of the 
or reft ‘on his heel, when he goes a moderate pace; which « Lettres tes,” with a preface written by himfelt 
ws out his back finew, that was t Moreri. 
rank before. ‘Thefe halbert-thees are ufually injurious. sieneeicce on n Cuisese Mufic, drawn up from the moft 
HALCRYPTIUM, a name given by Dr. Hill to a recent and authen ormation, it will appear that the za 
iar falt difcovered in the chalybeate waters, men- counts which this learned and. pious miffionary y ben gies 
ioned by F a — — authors, be- the mufic of din 
fore known by any peculi almoft every ate nt circumftance. See Coums Mufes 
"The word is derived oat a ‘fal and xpuzlv, to hide, it HALDEN hearin inG bya barony of the Gri 
moft latent, and with the teft difficulty dif- in 2 het need » which, Mr. Coxe fays, ere 
eenente no more > ae ea three and four bu oni 
herpetic wer obo ol, Sa en on eg 
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