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necked, and furrounded with a fingle row of prickles. 
One fpecies only hath as yet been difcovered, viz. 
il&ruca muris; body greyifh-white, and wrinkled. It 
inhabits the inteftines of the mouf'e, and 'is diftinguifhed' 
from the genus Echinorhynchus, in wanting the retraclile'' ‘ 
probofcis. This curious worm is fhewn, very greatly 
magnified, 4 ' in the correfpondent engraving. 
HAFAI'VA, one of the Friendly lflands, in the 
Southern Pacific Ocean, about fix leagues nortli-ndrth- 
eaft of Annamooka. 
HA'FAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chu- 
fiftan : thirty-fix leagues fouth of Sufa. 
HAF'DAEI,, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Drontheim: fifty miles'north-eaft of Romfdal. 
HAFF'STADTEM, or FIafstetten, a town of Ger- 
.many, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and principality 
of Coburg: five miles eafi of Coburg. 
HAFNERZELL', a.town of Germany, in the circle 
of Bavaria, and bilhopric ofPafiau : eight miles eafi of 
Pafiau. 
-. 11 APT,/ [ liaept, Sax. heft, Dut. front' to have ok hold. ] 
A handle ; that part of any inftrument that is taken into 
the hand.—The extremities of the joints are the hafts 
and handles of the members. Dufrefndy. >. 
This brandilh’d dagger, 
I’M bury to the haft in her fair breaft. Dryden. 
To HAFT, v. a. To fet in a-haft. Ainfwortk. 
HAFT'ING, y. The aft of putting on a haft. Ainfw. 
HA G,f [haegeppe, Sax. a goblin; heckle, Dut. a 
witch.] A fury ; a llie-monfter :• 
Thus fpoke th* impatient prince, and made a paufe : 
His foul hags rais’d their heads, and clapt their hands; 
^ And all the powers of Fell, in full applaufe, 
Flourifil’d their fnakes, and toll their flaming brands. 
Crajhaw. 
A witch; an encharitrefs.—Out of my door, you witch! 
you hag, you baggage, you poulcat, you runnion. Shake- 
fpeare. —An old ugly woman : 
Such affections may become .the young; 
But thou, old hag, of threefcore years and three, 
Is /hewing of thy parts in Greek for thee i Dryden. 
A kind of .fiery meteor, which appears on men’s hair, 
or on the manes of horfes. 
To HAG, v. a. To torment; to harafs with vain ter¬ 
ror.—How are fuperftitious men (tagged out of their wits 
with the fancy of omens,, tales, and vifioiis ! VEJlrange. 
That makes them in the dark fee vifions, 
And hag themfelves with apparitions. Hudibras. 
HA G,J. [from hawgh, old Eng.] A dale.—Thisfaid, 
he led lire over holts and hags. Fairfax. —This is not 
given as.a general interpretation of the old Englifli hag, 
which feems to have had other meanings.; but if Fairfax 
has faithfully tranflated his original TafTo in this line, 
holts and hags rruift mean kills and hollows. Maf oil's Suppl. 
to Johnfon. 
HAG-SEED, f Offspringhf a hag.— Hag-feed, hence ! 
Skakefpeare, 
liAG’s-HEAD, a cape of Ireland, on the weftern 
cpaft of the county of Clare : fevente.en miles weft from 
Corrofin. Lat. 52.55. N. Ion. 9. 24. W. .Greenwich.. 
- HA'GA, / [Saxon.] A man/ion ; a dwelling. Scott. 
HA'GAR, f. [Heb. afiranger.] A woman’s name. 
HAG'ARENS, or Hagarites, [from Hagar, the 
mothered Ifhmael.] The defeendants of Ifhmael, called 
by the general name of Arabians. They dwelt in Arabia 
Felix, according to Pliny. Strabo joins them with the 
Nabathasans, and Chavlotaeans, whofe habitation was 
in Arabia Deferta. Others think tlieir capital was Petra, 
other-wife Agra, in Arabia Petraea. The author of the 
23d Pfalm, v. 6. joins them with the Moabites; and in 
the Chronicles it is (aid (1 Chr. v. 10.) that the fons of 
Reuben, in the time of Saul, made war againft the Ha¬ 
gai ens, and became mafters of their country eaftward of 
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the mountains of Gilead. This therefore was the true 
and ancient country, of the Hagarens. When Trajan 
came into Arabia, he befieged tire capital of the Ha¬ 
garens,. but could not take it. The fons of Hagar valued 
themfelves of old upon their wifdom, as appears by 
Baruch- iii. 23. 
HA'GA'RSTOWN, in'the American States, now 
called Elizabeth Town, which fee. Jt has a coniiderable 
trade with the weftern country, and is fituated in Wafh- 
ington county, Maryland ; it is a poft-town, twenty-fix 
miles north-weft-of Fredericktown, feventy-three north- 
wefi-by-w.eft of Baltimore, and twenty-two louth-by-weft 
of Chambei (burg, in Pennfylvania. 
H A'GEDORN (Frederic), a celebrated German poet, 
born in 170S, at Hamburgh, where his father relided as- 
Danifti minifter for the circle of Lower Saxony. He reT 
ceived a liberal education, and ihewed an early talent 
for poetry. In 1726 he was lent to JCna, where he ap¬ 
plied for. three years to the ftudy of the law ; but with¬ 
out neglecting the mufes, A final 1 collection of his 
poems was publifhed at Hamburgh in 1729; and the 
fame year, in order to puflj his fortune, he repaired to 
London with recommendations to the Danifti ambaflador 
baron Von Solenthall, and refided in that city till 1731 ; 
■where he became acquainted with the genius and man¬ 
ners of the Englifh nation, for which he ever afterwards ' 
entertained a high efteem. He ftudied the Englifh wri¬ 
ters with great alfiduity; ,an,d Pope, next to Horace, was 
his favourite author. In 1733 he was appointed fecre- 
tary to the fociety of Britilh merchants at Hanibtirgh ; 
to which he was recommended by his intimate acquaint¬ 
ance with the Englifh language 1 . For nearly ten years 
he devoted himfelf to poetry for his own amufeinent ; 
but in 1738 he publifhed the firft book of his Fables, 
which made' him better known. In 1740 appeared his 
mafterly ridicule of modern pedantry, entitled The Man 
of Letters ; and in 1742, a paraphrafe of Pope’s Uni- 
verfal Prayer. In 1743 he gave to tiie public his cele¬ 
brated poem of Happinefs, which eftabliHied his repu¬ 
tation as amoral poet; and, this was followed in 1747 
by A Letter to a Friend, wliich is an excellent commen¬ 
tary on the Nil Admirari of Horace ; and in 1750 by the 
firft colleftiopiof his Raftered poems, to which was 
added the fecond book of his Fables. In the following 
year he attempted imitations of the bacchanalian fongs ' 
of the Englifli. His-pr.o.duftiohs in this ftyle were pub¬ 
lifhed at Hamburgh in 1751; and .mahy of them have 
been fet to mufic for the harpfichord by Bach, Quantz, 
Gorner, and Graf. In this kind of writing lie may be 
compared to Prior, whom he feems often to have imi¬ 
tated. He died in 1754, in tiie forty-Eventh year of 
his age. Wielaml, in the preface to his poetical works, 
calls him the German Horace. A complete colleftion 
of his works, witli vignettes, was publiftied at Ham¬ 
burgh in 1756; and feveral editions have appeared fince 
that time. 
HA'GEN, a town of Germany, in tl]e circle ofWeft- 
phalia, and county of Mark, containing three churches,' 
and fome manufactures of cloth : fix miles north-weft of 
Aliena. 
HA'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony: inthe.iftand of JR u gen : fixteen miles Touth- 
eaft of Bergen. 
HAG'ENAU, a town of Germany', in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Schwerin :. twenty-fix miles' 
fouth-weft of Schwerin. 
HA'GEN BACH, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine : four leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Landau, and ten and a half north-north-eaft of Strafburg. 
HA'GENBACH, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Lower Rhine,: :tnd palatinate of the Rhine : four 
miles north of Lauterburg, and twelve fopth-eaft of 
• Landau. Lat. 48. 59. N. Ion. 25. 54. E. Ferro. 
HA'GENBRUNN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auliru: four miles eafi of Korn-Newburg. ' 
HA'GENBURG,. 
