H A I 
trained, unconftant, unfettled, wild as a hare.'] Wild; 
irregular; unfteady.—Let’s leave this town ; for they 
are hairbrain'd (laves. Shahefpeare. 
HAIR'BELL,/. The hyacinth. See Hyacinthus. 
I feldom have' met with a lofs, 
Such health do my fountains bedow ; 
My fountains all border ’4 with mofs, 
Where the hail-bells and Violets grow. Skenfrene. , 
H AIR'BREADTH, f. A very fmall didance ; the 
diameter of a hair.—Seven hundred chofen men left- 
handed could (ling (tones at an hairbreadth , and not mifs. 
Judg. xx. 16. 
I (poke of mod difaftrous chances, 
Qf moving accidents by Hood and field ; 
Of. hairbreadth ’fcapes in th’ deadly breach. Shakefpeare. 
,HAtR'CLOTPI, f.~ Stuff made of hair, very rough 
and prickly.—It is compofed of reeds and parts of plants 
woven together, lilce a piece of haircloth. Grew. 
HAIR'GRASS,/. in botany. See Aira. 
H AIR'INESS, ]. The ftate of being covered with 
hair, or abounding with hair.. 
H AIR'LACE, f- The fillet with which women tie 
up their hair.—Some worms are commonly refembled 
to a woman’s hairlace or fillet, thence called tenia. Harvey. 
HAIR'LESS, adj. Wanting hair: 
White beards have arm’d their thin and hair/.fs fealps' 
Againft thy majefty. • Shakefpeare. 
HAIR'POWDER, J. a fine, white, foft, impalpable 
powder, 1 finely ground, or levigated from (larch, and 
perfumed with bergamot, efi'ence of violets, or attar of 
rofes, and fometimes coloured as well as perfumed, as 
delicate fancies occafionally fugged. Much injury to 
the conditution was formally experienced by perfons 
who ufed hair-powder, in confequence of it’s beingadul- 
terated with mineral fubdances. To check this evil, 
fevere penalties are inflifted by dat. 4 Geo. II., c. 14. 
on all makers of hair-powder, perfumers, or others, 
who lhall mix any powder of alabader, chalk, gypfum,^ 
- &c. with hair-powder, or who (hall make hair-powder of 
any other material than that of darch, Manufacturers 
of hair-powder are alfo to make entry of their work- 
houfes at the office of excife. 
The more recent pradtice of throwing filch quantities 
of this powder upon the head, was introduced into Eng¬ 
land, with numerous other follies, by the fuperficial 
admirers of the beau-motide in Paris ; but it is laid to have 
been fird invented in order to imitate the fil'ver-white 
curling wigs, which flowed over the (houlders and down 
the back, and were the ornament of kings of all the nobi¬ 
lity and profeffional men in the feventeeth century ; with 
the Angle exception, we believe, of Louis XIV. whochole 
to wear a black one. The filver-white hair becoming 
infufficient for the increafing,demand, other hair, daub¬ 
ed over with greafe and powder, became the fubditute. 
Thefe wigs went completely out of faflvion in the reign 
of George II. and are now only retained by our-judges 
and barrifiers at law, to give dignity or folemnity to the 
proceedings of our courts. Next to thefe learned lumi¬ 
naries of the law, the phyfician,' out of all the liberal 
profeflions, was among the lad to lay them down ; and 
which only began to take place about the middle .of the 
eighteenth century. The fine flowing filver-white wig 
then gave place to frizzled hair and powdered heads, 
drefled a-la-mode a Paris ; and which became fo much 
the voguJ, and fo univerfajly followed in England by 
all ranks of people, that in feafons of fcarcity of bread- 
corn the evil came' to be attributed to the great quan¬ 
tity of wheat manufactured into darch to fupply the de¬ 
mand for hair-powder. Hence Mr. Pitt, in the year 
1795, thought it a proper article of' taxation ; and by 
dat. 35 Geo, III. c. 49, compelled every perfon who 
chofe to continue from that time to wear hair-powder 
to take out a licence for that purpofe, paying a damp- 
duty of'one guinea per annum. This in a great meafure 
cured the influenza of frofted heads; and our Engliffi 
Vcl, IX. No, 57j. 
H A K 165 
ladies began to appear on public occafions ^vithout pow¬ 
der; much to their praife on the fcore of cleanlinefs 
and comfort, and without the fmalled diminution of 
their native charms. 
The exernptions in the above-mentioned fiatute for 
taking out hair powdei' licences, are as follow r “No¬ 
thing in this ad (hall apply to any of the royal family, 
,any of the menial' fervants of his majedy or any of the 
royal family. Nor to any officer in aCtual employ in 
the navy, under the rank of commander, or any officer 
holding a commiflion in the navy under the faid rank, 
who 'fliall be employed on the eftablifliment of' the hos¬ 
pital at Greenwich, or any fubalternor iibn-commi(Hon¬ 
ed officer or private man in the army, artillery, militia, 
marines, engineers, or any perfon inrolled and ferving 
in any volunteer corps or aflociated body of men, whe¬ 
ther of infantry or cavalry. Nor to any clergyman who 
ffiall not be poflefled of an annual income of one hun¬ 
dred pounds or upwards, from ecclefiadical preferment 
or otherwile ; or any preacher of any congregation of 
difi'enters,, or any perfon diiTenting from the church of 
England in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, who 
now is or at any time hereafter (hall be entitled to the 
benefit off the datutes for exempting proteftant fubjedts 
’diflenting from the church of England and papids from 
.the penalties of certain laws, who (hall not be poflefled of 
any annual income of one hundred pounds or upwards.” 
IIAIR'Y, adj. Overgrown with hair ; covered with 
hair.—Children are not hairy, for that their (kins are 
more perfpirable. Bacon .\—Confiding of hair: 
Storms have died 
From vines the hairy, honours of their head. Dryden. 
PIAIR'WORM, f. See Gordius, vol. viii. p. 692. 
HAISNE-. See WaineT 
HAISNEAU', a river of France, which runs into the 
Haine at Conde. 
HAITETSKU'LA, a town of Croatia: fourteen 
miles north of Novi. 
HAJYKAN', a country of Afia, on the wed fide of 
the Sinde, between Mecran and Moultan. 
HAKE, or Hakot, in ichthyology, the Engliffi name 
of a fpecies of Gadus. See vol. viii. p. 159. 
HA'KEL, a tovyn of Arabia Felix, in the province - 
of Yemen; forty miles fouth-fofith-ead of Abu-Arifch. 
HA'KELSDORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Konigingratz: fixteen miles north-north-eadof Gitf- 
chin. 
HA'KEWILL (George), a learned Engliffi divine, 
born at Exeter, in 1579. After palling through the pre¬ 
paratory courfe of grammar-learning in his native city, 
he was entered a commoner of St. Alban’s-hall, Ox¬ 
ford. In this feminary lie fo early didinguiffied himfelf 
by his proficiency, and his (kill in fcholadic deputa¬ 
tions, that when he was only of two years’ danding, he 
was unanimoufiy elected aTellow of Exeter cqllege; 
and in 1611 took the degree of dotdor in divinity. Af- * 
terwards he was appointed chaplain to prince Charles/ 
and obtained the archdeaconry of Surrey in 1616.' He 
acquired confiderable reputation as an acute philofo- 
pher, and profound divine ; and died in 1649, at feventy 
years of age. Befides Angle fermons, controverfial trea¬ 
ties, 8 cc. he was the author of, 1. Scutum Reqium adver- 
Jus omnes Regicidas (3 Regicidarum Patronos, ab initio Mundi 
ufque ad Interitum Phoca Imperatoris, &c. Lib. III. 1612, 
8vo. 2. The ancient and ecclefiadical Practice of Con¬ 
firmation, confirmed by Arguments drawn from Scrip¬ 
ture, Reafon, Councils, Fathers, and later Writers, &c. 
1613, 4to. 3. Twelve Sermons concerning David’s 
Vow to reform himfelf, his Family, and his Kingdom. 
1621, 8vo. 4. An Apology or Declaration of the Power 
and-Providence of God in the Government of the World, 
proving that it doth not decay, &c. in Fc$r Books, 
1627, folio ; the third edition of which, printed in 1635, 
was enlarged by two additional books. 
HA’KING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Audria : fix miles weft of Vienna. 
U u HAK'LOFEN, 
