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of cattle of a town ; one part of whofc office is to fee that 
they neither break nor crop the hedges ofinclofed grounds. 
He is an officer appointed in the court leet or baron, 
and is to look to the fields, and impound cattle that tref- 
pafs therein ; to infpedt that no pound-breaches be made, 
and, if any be, to pfefent them at the court. Kitch. 46. 
HAY'WARD (fir John), an Engliffi hiftorian, edu¬ 
cated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL. D. 
He publifiied in 1599 The firft Part of the Life and Reign 
of Henry IV. which he dedicated to the earf of Effex, 
who foon after was brought to the fcaffold. He was ap¬ 
pointed by king James, in 1610, one. of the hiftoriogra- 
phers of his intended college of controveriial divinity at 
Chelfea. At the defire of prince Henry he compofed 
the Lives of the three Norman Kings of England, 4to, 
1613. He received the honour of knighthood in 1619; 
which he repaid by writing in 1624 a difcourfe Of Su- ' 
premacy in Affairs of Religion, in which he maintained 
the polition that fupremacy in ecclefiaftical matters is a 
right of fovereignty. He died in 1627. After his death 
v. as publifiied his Life and Raigne of King Edward VI. 
with the Beginning of the Raigne of Queen Elizabeth, 
4to, 1630. As an hifiorian he obtained molt credit for 
his Life of Henry IV. which, bifnop Nicholfon obferves, 
gave him the repute of a good clean pen. and fmooth 
ftyle, though fome judged it to be too dramatical. He 
imitated the ancient pradftice of putting fpeeches in the 
mouths of his perfonages, and is called by Kennet a pro- 
fefiional fpeech-maker. 
HAY'V/OOD FORT, a fort of the ifland of Barba- 
does : one mile and a half north of Speight’s-town. 
fiAYZ, / with aftrologers, the dignity of a planet, 
heightened by fome favourable circumftances or fituation. 
HAZ-OGHUBE'Z ARZICH, or Agioi-Bassard- 
scik, a town of European Turkey, in the province of 
Bulgaria. The town, is commercial, and inhabited by 
many rich Armenians : thirty, eightmiles fouth of Driffra. 
HAZAI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HA'ZAR-AD'DAR, or Adar, a city of Paleftine, 
belonging to the tribe of Judah ; fituated on the fouthern 
boundary of that province. Numb, xxxiv. 4. JoJh. xv. 3. 
HA'ZAR-E'NAN, a city fituated on the northern 
boundary of P.ilefiine, and very probably belonging to 
that country. Numb, xxxiv. Ezek. xlvii. 17. xlviii. 1. 
HA'Z AR-G AD'DAH, a city of Paleftine, belonging 
to the tribe of Judah ; fituated in the fouthern part of 
that province, near the borders of Edom. JoJh. xv. 27. 
HA'Z AR-HAT'TI CON, the name of a place men¬ 
tioned Ezek. xlvii. 16. 
HA'ZAR-SHU'AL, a city of Paleftine, belonging to 
the tribe of Judah ; fituated in the fouthern part of that 
province, near the borders of Edom : it was afterwards 
affigned to the tribe of Simeon, as their inheritance was 
included within that of Judah. JoJh. xv. 28. xix. 3, 
H A'SAR-SU'SAH, or Ha'zar-Su'sim, a city of Pa¬ 
leftine, belonging to the tribe of Simeon. JoJh. xix. 5. 
.1 C/iron. iv. 31. 
HAZARD, J. \_hazard, Fr. azar , Span, hajki, Ru¬ 
nic; danger.] Chance; accident; fortuitous hap.— 
Where the mind does not perceive connection, there 
.men’s opinions are not the product of judgment, but 
the effects of chance and hazard. Locke, 
1 have fet my life upon a call, 
And I will Hand the hazard of the die. Shakejpeare. 
Danger; chance of danger.—Men are led on from one 
Rage of life to another in a condition of’ the utmoft ha- 
<zard, and yet without the leaft apprehenfion of their 
danger. Rogers. —A game at dice.—The duke playing at 
hazard , held in a great many hands together, and drew 
a huge heap of gold. Swift. 
To HAZ'ARD, v. a. [hazarder, Fr.] To expofe to 
chance; to put into danger.—They might, by perfift- 
ing in the extremity of that opinion, hazard greatly their 
Von. IX. No. 583, 
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own eftates. Hooker. —By dealing indifferently mercies to 
all, you may hazard your own fliare. Sherlock. 
To HAZ'ARD, v. a. To try the chance.—Paufe a day 
or two, before you hazard. Skakjpcarc.— To adventure ; 
to run the danger : 
She from her fellow-provinces would go, 
Rather than hazard to have you a foe. Waller. 
HAZ'ARD, or Rich'mond Bay, a bay in Hudfon’s 
Bay, on the weft coaft of Labrador, with a great number 
of fina.ll ifiands, called Arthiwinjpick by the Indians of 
the country. Lat. 5 6. 35. Ion. 75. 5Q. W. Greenwich- 
HAZ’ARD ABLE, adj. Venturous; liable to chance. 
—An hazfirdablc determination it is, unto ftu£luating and 
indifferent effedts to affix a pofitive type or period. 
Brown. 
HAZ'ARDER, J. He who hazards. 
HAZ'ARDRY, /. Temerity; precipitation; raffi ad- 
venturoufnefs. Objolcte. 
Hafty wrath, and heedlefs hazardry , 
Do breed repentance iate, and lafting infamy. Sper.fer, 
Playing at hazard : 
Some fell to daunce; fome fell to hazardry; 
Some to make lov.e : fome to make merriment. Spenfer. 
I-IAZ'ARDOUS, adj. [hazardeux , Fr. from hazard.] 
Dangerous ; expofedto chance : 
Grant that our hazardous attempt prove vain. 
We feel the worft, fecure from greater pain. Dryden. 
HAZARDOUSLY, adv. With danger or chance. 
H AZ'ARDOUSNESS,/The ftate of being hazardous. 
HAZARDS,/. The holes in the fide of a billiard- 
table. 
HAZA'ZON-TA'MAR, or Haze'zon-Tamar, or 
En-Gedi, the.feat of the Amorites in the days of t-he 
patriarch Abraham. Here the Moabites and Ammo¬ 
nites pitched againft Jehofhaphat king of Judah. Gen. 
xiv. 7. 2 Chron. xx. 2. See En-gedi. 
HAZE,/ [the etymology unknown.] Fog; mift.— 
In the fog and haze of confufion all is enlarged and ap¬ 
pears without any limit. Burke. 
To HAZE, v. n. To be foggy or mifty. 
To HAZE, v. a. To fright one. Ainjworth. 
HAZEBROU'CK, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftvidt, in the department of the North : fix 
leagues and a half weft of Lille, and fix and a half fouth 
of Dunkirk. Lat, 30. 43. N. Ion. 20. 12. E. Ferro. 
HA'Z EL, / [haspel, Sax.] The common nut-tree. 
See the article Corylus, vol. v. p. 246. 
Kate, like the hazel twig, 
Is ftraight and [lender, and as brown in hue 
As hazel nuts, and fweeter than the kernels. Shakejpeare. 
HA'ZEL, adj. Light brown; of the colour of hazel.— 
Chufe a warm dfy foil, that has a good depth of light 
hazel mould. Mortimer. 
HA'ZEL-NUT,/ The common fmall nut, the fruit 
of the hazel. 
HAZEL-OPO'NI, [Hebrew; fliade and forrow of 
countenance.] The name of a woman. 
HA'ZELLY,eij. Ofthe colour of hazel; alightbrown. 
—Uplands confift either of fand, gravel, chalk, rock, or 
ftone, hazelly loam, clay, or black mould. Mortimer. 
HAZ'ERIM, the name of a city of ancient Canaan, 
mentioned by Mofes as being the feat of the Avims, or 
Avites, who were difpoffelfed .by the Capht-orims, who 
occupied the country in their ftead. Deut. ii. 23. JoJh. 
xiii. 3. 
HAZ'EROTH, the thirteenth place of encampment 
of the Ifraelites in their journey from Egypt to Canaan. 
Numb. xi. 35. xxxiii. 17, 18. 
HA'ZOR, a city of ancient Canaan, and the feat of 
one of the nioJl ,powerful kings of that nation. It was 
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