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taken by Jofhua, who totally deftroyed it with fire ; 
notwithstanding, we again find the Ifraelites oppreffed by 
the defendants of Jabin, king of this place, in the days 
of Deborah and Barak. JoJh, xi. 10-13. Judges iv. 2. 
HA'ZOR, a city of Paleftine, belonging to the tribe 
of Naphtali; it was taken by Tiglath-pilefer, king of 
Affyria,, in the reign of Pekah king of Ifrael. JoJh. xix. 
36. 2 Kings, xv. 29.—Alfo the name of another city of 
Paleftine, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin. Neh.x i. 
31-33.—Likewife the name of two cities of Paleftine, be¬ 
longing to the tribe of Judah, fituated in the fouthern 
part o'f that province, near the border of Edom. JoJh. 
xv. 23-25. 
HA'ZOR, the name of a kingdom mentioned Jer. 
xlix. 28-33. 
HAZU'BAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HA'ZY, adj. Dark ; foggy; mifty : 
Oft engender’d by the hazy North, 
Myriads on myriads, infett armies waft. Thomfon. 
HE. pron. gen. him ; plur. they ; gen. them: [hy, 
Dut. he, Sax. It feems to have borrowed the plural 
from plural Say, dative Siytim. ] The man that 
was named before.—Feed, and regard him not. Shakefpeare'. 
So cheer’d he his fair fpoufe, and fhe was cheer’d. Milton. 
Thus talking, hand in hand along they pafs’d 
.On to their blifsful bow’r. Milton. 
The man; the perfon. It fomeimes ftands without re¬ 
ference to any foregoing word : 
He is never poor 
That little hath, but he that much defires. Daniel. 
HE, f. The man, or male being : 
Such mortal drugs I have ; but Mantua’s law 
Is death to any he that utters them. Shakefpeare. 
HE, f. The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 
HE, adj. Male : as, a he bear, a he goat. 
HE'A, an extenfive province of the kingdom of Mo¬ 
rocco,, in Africa, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. A 
great part of this province isAfandy defert: but its ma-. 
ritime fituation renders it favourable for commerce. 
The new town or city o 1 ’Moyador is its capital; which 
fee. 
HEAD,y. [heayob, heapb, Sa x‘. hoofd, Dut. heved, 
old Englifh, whence by contraction head .] The part of 
the animal that contains the brain or the organ of fen ra¬ 
tion and feat of thought.—I could have offers, that 
fome who held their heads higher would be glad e to ac¬ 
cept. Swift., . 
The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, 
For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head. Dryden. 
Perfon, as expofed to any danger or penalty.—What he 
gets more of her than lharp words, let it lie on. my head. 
Shakefpeare. 
Who of all ages to fucceed, but feeling 
The evil on him brought by me, will curfe 
My head 2 ill fare our anceftor impure! Milton. 
Denomination of any animals.—The tax upon pafturage 
was railed according to a certain rate per head upon cat¬ 
tle. Arbuthnot. —Chief; principal perfon ; one to whom 
the reft are fubordinate ; leader; commander : 
Your head I him appoint; 
And by myfelf have fworn, to him ftiall bow 
All knees in heav’n, and lhall- confefs him lord. Milton. 
Place of honour ; the firft: place.—Notwithftanding all 
the juftices had taken their places upon the bench, they 
made room for the old knight at the head of them. Ad¬ 
difon. —Place of command.—An army offourfcore thou- 
fand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head 
ef them, could do nothing. Addifon .—Countenance; 
H E A 
prefence,‘—Ere to-morrow’s fun lhall Ihew his head. 
Dryden. 
With Cain go wander through the fliade of night, 
And never ihew thy head by day or light. Shakefpeare. 
Underftanding ; faculties of the mind : commonly in a 
ludicrous fenfe,—We laid our heads together, to confi- 
der what grievances the nation had buffered under king 
George. Addifon. —A fox and a goat went down a well 
to drink; the goat fell to hunting which way to get 
back ; Oh ! fays Reynard, never trouble your head, but 
leave that to me. L’Ef range. —Face ; front; fore-part: 
The gathering crowd purfues ; 
The ravifhers turn head, the fight renews. Dryden. 
Refiftance; hoftile oppofition.—Sometimes hath Henry 
Bolingbroke made head againft my power. Shakefpeare. 
Then made he head againft his enemies. 
And Hymner flew. Fairy Queen. 
Spontaneous refolution.—The bordering wars in this 
kingdom were made altogether by voluntaries, upon 
their own head, without any pay or commiilion from the 
ftate. Davies .—State of a deer’s horns, by which his age 
is known—The buck is called, the fifth year, a. buck of 
the firft head. Shakefpeare .—Individual. It is ufed in 
numbers or computation.—If there be fix millions of 
people, then there is about four acres for every head. 
Graunt. —The top of any thing bigger than the reft.—His 
fpear’s head weighed fix hundred fhekels of iron. 1 Sam. 
—If the buds are made our food, they are called heads or 
tops ; fo heads of afparagus or artichoaks. —Head is there¬ 
fore an equivocal term ; for it fignifies the head of a nail, 
or of a pin, as well as of an animal. Watts. . 
As his proudTre^ is rais’d towards the fky, • 
So low tow’ids hell his roots defcend. Denham. 
The fore-part of any thing, as of a ftiip.—By gallies with 
brazen heads the might tranfport over Indus at once three 
hundred thoufand foldiers. Raleigh. , 
His gallies rhoor; 
Their heads are turn’d to lea, their fterns to Ihore. Dryd. 
.That which rifes on,the top.—Let it ftand in a tub four 
or five days before it be put into the calk, ftirring it 
twice a-day, and beating down the head or yeaft into it. 
Mortimer .—The blade of an axe.—A man fetcheth a 
ftroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head 
flippeth from the helve. Deut. xix. 5.—Upper part of a 
bed.—Ifrael bowed upon the bed’s head. Gen. xlvii. 31.— 
The brain: * 
As eaftern priefts in giddy circles run, 
And turn their heads to imitate the fun. Pope. 
Drefs of the head.—Ladies think they gain a point when 
they have teazed their hulbands to buy them a laced 
head, or a fine petticoat. Swift .—Principal topic of dif- 
courfe.—’Tis our great intereft and duty to fatisfy our- 
felves on this head, upon which our whole conduct de¬ 
pends. Atterbury.— Source of a ftream.—It is the glory 
of God to give ; his very nature delighfeth in it; his 
mercies in the current, through which they would pafs, 
may be dried up, but at the head they never fail. Hooker. 
Beneath a laurel fhade, where mighty Po 
Mounts up to woods above, and hides his head below. 
Dryden , 
Crifis; pitch.—The indifpofition which has long hung 
upon me, is at laft grown to fuch a head, that it mult 
quickly make an end of me, or of itfelf. Addifon. —Power.; 
influence; force; ftrength; dominion: 
Within her bread though calm, her breaft though pure, 
Motherly cares and fears got head, and rais’d 
Some troubled thoughts. Milton. 
Body ; conflux.—A mighty and a fearful head they are. 
Shakefpeare. Let 
