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cious, noify, fellow.—Thofe ufurping heElors, who pre¬ 
tend to honour without religion, think the charge of a 
lie a biot not to be waffled out but by blood. South. 
We’ll take one coo-ling cup of neitar, 
And drink to this celedial heElor. Prior. 
To HEC'TOR, v. a. To threaten ; to treat with info- 
lent authoritative terms: 
The weak low fpirit Fortune makes her (lave j 
But (lie’s a drudge, when heElor'd by the brave. Dryden. 
To HEC'TOR, v. n. To play the bully ; to blufler.— 
One would think the heEloring , the (forming, the fullen, 
and all the different fpecies of the angry, (flould be 
cured. SpeElator. 
Don Carlos made her chief diredtor, 
That flie might o’er the fervants heElor. Swift. 
HEC'TOR, a military townlhip of the American 
States, in the State of New York, on the eafl fide of 
Seneca Lake, towards the fouth end, having Ovid on 
the north and Newtown tow'n(hip on the fouth : twenty- 
nine miles fouth-by-wefl of the ferry on Cayuga Lake. 
HEC'TORING, f. The aft of threatening; the con- 
dudt of a bully. 
HEC'UBA, daughter of Dymas, a Phrygian prince, 
or, according to others, of CifTeis, a Thracian king, was 
the fecond wife of Priam king of Troy, celebrated as 
the chaded of women, and the mod tender and unfortu¬ 
nate of mothers. When (lie was pregnant of Paris, (he 
dreamed that (he had brought into the world a burning 
torch which had reduced her hufband’s palace and all 
Troy to allies. So alarming a dream was explained by 
the foothfayers, who declared that the fon (he (hould 
bring into the world would prove the ruin of his coun¬ 
try. When Paris was born, (lie expofed him on mount 
Ida, to avert the calamities which threatened her fami¬ 
ly ; but her attempts to deltroy him were fruitlefs, and 
the prediction of the foothfayers was fulfilled. During 
the Trojan war (he faw the greateft part of her children 
perifli by the hands of the enemy, and like a mother (he 
confefled her grief by her tears and lamentations, particu¬ 
larly at the death of Hector her elded fon. When Troy 
was taken, Hecuba, as one of the captives, fell to the 
lot of Ulyfles, a man whom (he hated for his perfidy 
and avarice, and (he embarked with the conquerors for 
Greece. The Greeks landed in the Thracian Cherfo- 
nefus to load with frelh honours the grave of Achilles. 
During their day the hero’s gholt appeared to them, and 
demanded, to enfure the fafety of their return, thefacri- 
fice of Polyxena, Hecuba’s daughter. They complied, 
and Polyxena was torn from her mother to be facrificed. 
Hecuba was inconfolable, and her grief was dill more 
increafed at the fight of the body of her fon Polydorus 
wafiied on the (hore, who had been recommended by 
his father to the care and humanity of Polymneflor king 
of the country. She determined to revenge the death 
of her fon, and with the greated indignation went to 
the houfe of his murderer, tore out his eyes, and at¬ 
tempted to deprive him of his life. She was hindered 
from executing her bloody purpofe, by the arrival of 
fome Thracians, and (he fled with the female compa¬ 
nions of her captivity. She was purfued, and when (he 
ran after the flones that were thrown at her (he found 
herfelf fuddenly changed into a bitch, and when (he at¬ 
tempted to fpeak found that (he could only bark. After 
this metamorphofis (he threw herfelf into the fea, ac- 
cordingdo Hyginus ; and that place was, from that cir- 
cumdance, called Cyneum. Hecuba had a great number 
of children by Priam, among whom were Hedtor, Paris, 
Deiphobus, Pammon, Helenus, Polites, Antiphon, Hip- 
ponous, Polydorus, Troilus; and among the daughters, 
Creufa, Ilione, Laodice, Polyxena, and Caflandra. Ovid. 
Virgil. 
HED, a town of Sweden, in the province ofWeftman- 
land : eighteen miles north-wed of Stroemlholm. 
HED 
HE'D A, f. In old records, a haven, a port. 
HEDA'GIUM,/! In old records, wharfage, a cuf- 
tom or tribute paid at a wharf. 
HED'DING, or Store Hedding, a town of Den¬ 
mark, in the ifland of Zealand: twenty miles fouth- 
fouth-wed of Copenhagen. 
HE'DE, a town of Sweden, in the province of Wed 
Gothland : thirty-two miles north-wed of Uddevalla. 
HEDE'E, a town of France, in the department of the 
IIle and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridt of Rennes: two pods and a half north of Rennes, 
and five and a half fouth of St. Maloes. Lat. 48. 18. N. 
Ion.'*5. 51. E. Ferro. 
HEDEMORA, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Dalecarlia, and one of the principal towns of the 
kingdom, fituated near a lake, well built and commer¬ 
cial ; here is a large manufadture of gunpowder: fifty- 
three miles north-wed of Upfal. Lat. 60. 17. N. Ion. 
16. E. Greenwich. 
HED'ENGER (John-Reinhard), a learned German 
Lutheran divine, born at Stutgard in 1684. He accom¬ 
panied two princes of Wirtemberg on their travels,^ in 
the capacity of chaplain, and on his return to his native 
country was appointed profeffbr of civil and-canon law 
in the univerfity of Gieflen. Afterwards he was nomi¬ 
nated preacher to the court, and confidorial counfellor. 
He died in 1764. He was the author of Critical Remarks 
on the Pfalms, and on the New Tedament; and editor 
of an impreflion of The Bible, with corredtions of the 
verfion in common ufe. 
HED'ERA, f. [from edere, Lat. eat, becaufe it 
wades and devours trees; or from harendo, to dick.] Ivy. 
In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order mono- 
gynia, natural order of hederaceae, (caprifolia, JuJ.) 
The generic charadters are—Calyx : involucre of a Am¬ 
ple umbel, very fmall, many-toothed; perianthium very 
(mall, five-toothed, furrounding the germ. Corolla : 
petals five, oblong, fpreading, with the tips bowed in¬ 
wards. Stamina: filaments five, fubulate, upright, of 
the fame length with the corolla; antherae trifid at the 
bafe, incumbent. Pifiillum: germ turbinate, furrounded 
by the receptacle; dyle Ample, very fhort; fligma Am¬ 
ple. Pericarpium : berry globular, one-celled, (five- 
celled, Gartner.) Seeds: five, large, gibbous on one 
fide, angular on the other.— EJfential CharaEler. Petals 
five, oblong; berry five-feeded, furrounded by the calyx. 
Species. 1. Hedera helix, or common ivy : leaves ovate 
and lobed. The varieties are—j 3 . Hedera poetica, with 
leaves ovate, undivided, y. Hedera major derilis, with 
leaves five-lobed. Hedera humi repens, with leaves 
lanceolate. 
Common jvy is a well-known parafitical (hrub. Where 
it meets with any fupport, fuch as walls, buildings, or 
trees, the dem will adhere to them, and rife to a very 
reat height, infinuating itfelf by a great abundance of 
bres into the joints of walls, or the bark of trees. If 
no fupport is near, the flalks trail upon the ground, 
taking root their whole length, fo that they cover the 
furface clofely, and are difficult to eradicate ; for where 
any (mall parts of the dalks are left, they will foon 
fpread and multiply. Whild ivy is fixed to any fup¬ 
port, or trails upon the ground, the dalks are (lender 
and flexible ; but when it has reached to the top of its 
fupport, they (horten and become woody, forming them- 
felves into large bufhy heads; their leaves are larger, 
more of an ovai (hape, and not divided into lobes like 
the lower leaves: this difference occafioned the old bo- 
tanids to take them for difierent (pecies. Whild the 
flalks trail, ivy does not produce any flowers; and in 
this date it is called barren or creeping ivy ; but when the 
branches get above their fupport, they produce flowers 
at the end of every (hoot; thefe are fucceeded by ber¬ 
ries, formed into round bunches called by the ancients 
corymbi, and turning black before they are ripe. In this 
(late it is called climbing or berried ivy. 
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