HEE 
hkewife independent of all external ftimulation, except that 
| - it requires a warm, clofe, and quiet atmofphere e, being im- 
= peded by w 
-fence or prefence of 8 is equally indifferent as to its. per- 
formance. plants eenibit this phenomenon beft. 
plant, to which nothing parallel i is known, juftly obferves 
that “ it loves fhade, and rainy weather, and performs its 
movements very well during the whole night.”’ 
: Se The laf fection Be toa. fome beautiful fpecies ; ; 
1. pidum, Jacq. Ic. Rar. , a {plendid native of 
Sa Each: leaf has about = harie wi odd one, 
of linear leaflets, fix inches or more in length, narrow, moft 
beautifully painted with a finuous, © step Soapteudinal ftripe. 
The {pikes are terminal, above a foot ong, confifting of. 
innumerable pale purple flowers, witha pair of white {pots 
at the bafe of the dan ard, 
The Siberian 4. argenteum, meanly delineated in . 
a very fhowy herbaceous plant, 
count of its filvery leaves, and bool white as Rowers, 
alpinum, and obfcurum Mag. t. 282, are two 
hantfone ‘pie {pecies, with pee dete To thefe 
is. akin A. coronariu a on in gardens by a name of 
a 2 Curt. Ma age 
t. 996, raifed by the ‘seat Loddiges from feed ob- 
tained from Mount 
The only Britith fees "ah Hedyfarum is one of thofe, 
belonging to this feétion, which have the legume fimple, or 
coniiiting of a folitary joint ; e Onobrychis, or faintfein. 
Jacq. Auttr. t. 352. Engl. Bot 6. A native of chalky 
hillocks and downs, in: various paves of f England, flowering 
in June and July, ots 
ss or 5 moi it foil. The name 
i Grass, in Rural Be conomy, a name in fome cafes 
provincially sopeyet - fgets the ftumps or fharp itubs of 
fuch grafs as has been mown. 
eae EEDER, a term pio Fanci aor in soe te _ 
to fignify a malé a ; the female peng Se 
Sheeder. See SHEex 
rE i, in Hatin, the hind part of s ots 
In winter, the heels are liable to a kind | of ch 
hi “t, Which fometimes tend to a — 
Tige pore of the heel is called calcan 
- Hert of a horfe,-is sie loweft hind part love the foot, com- 
prehende few the quarters and oppolite to the toe. 
at fhould be and 
» and one fide not rife 
The distem inci- 
ut fo —_ 
hat by prefling the two fides o ie heel 0. 
acter they will fenfibly yield. S 
sige 
; ee aici yi oa 
breadth of ¢ 
ie the quarters, 
> coronet or top of 
wy that mes ea ad 
. 
wind, or by acurrent of cool air, though the ab- 
is dh fe taking and ae tthe heel his 
HEE 
away the fubftance of ie foot, and make it clofe and be- 
ome narrow at t 
EEL of a horfeman. “This being the part adachi is armed 
with a fpur, the word is ufed for the {pur itfelf; as, this 
horfe underftands the heels well. 
To ride a horfe from one Vrxt,to another, is to make him 
go cgereh ays, fometimes towards one heel, and fometimes 
anot 
Hee, in oe asa i a moulding, the fame as the cima- 
reverfa. See CyMaATiuM. 
Hee of a sane, the foot of the rafter, is cut to coincide 
with the top of the wall plate, when the rafter is pat into 
its pofition in the inclined fide of the roof, 
EEL, in Sea Language, is a name often given to the afters 
end of a ‘thip’ s keel ; and vr to the lower-end of the ftern- 
pears to which it is firmly jo 
If a fhip lean on one fi Xi eliadie a i or afloat, they 
fay fhe heels ‘a-{tarboard or afloat, or the hee heels offward or to 
the fhore; that is, fhe inclines more to one fide than to the 
other 
Heet of a ma/f, is that part of the foot thereof which is 
pares ped flanting, that the maft may be ftayed afterward 
‘foes of a top maft, is the lower end, fuftained on the 
treffel-trees by means of an iron bar, called the fidd. 
HEELER, or Bloody Heel Cock, -is a arenes cock: 
which pct ol or wounds much with his f ‘ 
now fuch a cock, even while a chicken, by 
the. Aiki res two heels together i in his goin . 
rg Joun Davin px, in Bio rephy anc an ehecilent painter 
of a and other articles of fll 
Utrecht in 1600 rid ‘0 Hes eem, firit  in- 
ftruéted him in th his tafte in the objeéts 
of his purfuit ; re Se had ee tl of feeing his fon rife 
to a degree o esc ing far ; urpafiing that which he was 
ie 8 :% to ae 
eem bits with very great fuccefs, compofi- 
foe of coniderable difficulty ; made up of carpets, vafes, 
fruits, “flawers, &c.; which + pesado in a free rich ftyle, 
with a flowi ving peucil, and full colour ; with great correct- 
nefs of imitation ; 3 not minute, but free chara¢teriltic exact- 
nefs. colouring is exccedingly tranfparent and brilli 
and his works were deemed fo | 
time they were fold at very confiderable prices; and o 
courfe fell only into the hands of men of I: fortunes; they 7 
are therefore very {carce to be met with. in roles 
» leaving a fon, Cornelius S Heem, who 
at the oO ho 
he inftruéted in tho fame line of art as he himfelf seuihifed ; ; 
but who never arofe to the fame ee of excellence with 
his father, though he was a very g painter, and his works. 
are fometimes fold as of his father’ s produdion. 
ips oe JAMES Hire a celebrated naval 
comma a native Amfterdam, end devoted 
from’ his ee to the es In 1 1596, he failed wah 
an en, 
k had his le eg armed ng an accident ae tars ina 
few hae put an end to his lie but he died _— 
men to. ir duty. Their efforts were 
with oa 3, the oe Bae pencee was killed, ks fon made 
and many thips burnt or funk: The Body 
of Heenitactk was ‘brought home, b —_— “Amfterdam 
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