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HKDER A'CEOUS, adj. [hedcraccus, Lat.] Producing 
ivy. 
HED'ERAL, adj. [from kedera, Lat.] Compofed of 
ivy, pertaining to ivy. 
HED'ERICH (Benjamin), a learned fclioolnian, born 
in 1675 at Giefhen, in Militia. Having fludied five 
years at Grimma, he was fent to the univerlity of Leip- 
fic, and then to Wittenberg. Having improved himfelf 
in the different branches of knowledge, he was invited 
to be teacher in the fchool of a monaftery near Magde¬ 
burg. Here he remained till 1705, when he was ap¬ 
pointed to be reftorof the fchool of Groffenhagen, where 
he fpent the remainder of his life, affiduoufly employed 
in infiru6ting his pupils, and in the coir.pcfition of ufe- 
ful works, the greater part of which relate to education. 
He died of an apoplexy in 1748. The mod important 
of his works are, 1. Nolitia AuSlorum A-iliqna & Media, 
Wittenberg, 17x4, 8vo. 2. Progymnafmata Lingua; Graca, 
1717, 8vo. 3. Progymnafmata Lingua Latina; 1745. • 3. 
Fqfti conjulares Romani, 1713, 8vo. 4. Rcales Schul-Lexicon, 
a dictionary of every thing that relates to geography, 
chronology, hiftory, antiquities, See, Leipfic, 1731, 4to. 
5. Lexicon manuale Gracum, 1722, Svo. 6 . Griindliches My- 
thologifches Lexicon, a Mythological Dictionary, 1724, 8vo. 
7. Lexicon Manuale Latino-Germanicum, 1739, tom ‘ U. He- 
derich’s Greek Lexicon, firlt publilbed at Leipfic in 1722, 
has been feveral times republilhed in England, with many 
additions, by Young, Patrick, and Morel]. It was alfo 
much improved by Ernefti, and publilbed at Leipfid in 
1767. 
HEDERIF'EROUS, adj. Bearing ivy. 
HEDERIFOR'MIS, adj. Having the form of ivy. 
HEDERO'SE, adj. Belonging to ivy, full of ivy. 
HED'EROUS, adj. Belonging to ivy, producing ivy. 
HEDESUN'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Geftricia : eighteen miles fouth of Geffle. 
HEDGE, f. [hegge, Sax.] A fence made round 
grounds with prickly bullies, or woven twigs.—The 
gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye every 
morning, and the hedges’ breath is beyond all perfume. 
Pope. 
Through the verdant maze 
Of fwcet-briar hedges I purfue my walk. Thomfon. 
No part of the bufinefs of a hulbandman or farmer re¬ 
quires greater attention than the proper conftrutlion and 
prefervation of his hedges and fences ; as on thefe not 
only the fecurity and profperity of his crops depend, 
but likewife the fafety and orderly management of his 
cattle. InftruCtions for the belt mode of rearing hedges, 
and ereCling fences, are therefore given under the arti¬ 
cle Husbandry, to which the reader is referred. 
HEDGE, prefixed to any word, notes fomething mean, 
vile, of the loweft clafs : perhaps from a hedge, or hedge- 
born man, a man without qny known place of birth.—■ 
There are five in the firlt fliow : the pedant, the brag¬ 
gart, the hedge-priejl, the fool, and the boy. Shakefpeare. 
To HEDGE, v. a. To inclole with a hedge, or fence 
of wood dry or growing.— Hedge thy polleffion about with 
thorns. Rcclef. —To obltruCt.—I will hedge up thy way 
with thorns. Hof. ii. 6.—To encircle for defence : 
England, hedg'd in with the main, 
That water-waited bulwark, (till fecure 
And confident from foreign purpofes. > Shakefpeare. 
To Ihut up within an inclofure.—That is a law to hedge 
in the cuckow, and ferves for no purpofe. Locke.—la 
force into a place already full. This leems to be mif- 
taken for edge. To edge in, is to put in by the way that re¬ 
quires lead room ; but hedge may fignify to thru'ft in with 
difficulty, as into a hedge. —When you are fent on an er¬ 
rand, be fure to hedge in fome bufinefs of your own. Swift. 
When I was hafty, thou delayd’ft me longer: 
I pr’ythee, let me hedge one moment more 
Into thy promife ; for thy life preferv’d, Dryden, 
Yob. IX. No. 386, 
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To HEDGE, v. n. To ffiift; to hide the head.;—I my- 
felf, fometim.es hiding mine honour in my neceffity, am 
fain to Ihuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shakefpeare. 
HEDGE-BORN, adj. Of no known birth; meanly 
born : 
He then, that is not furniffi’d in this fort, 
Doth but ufurp the facred name of knight, 
And Ihould, if I were worthy to be judge, 
Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born fwain, 
That doth prefume to boaft of gentle blood. Shakefpeare. 
HEDGE-BOTE,/. Stuff neceffary to make hedges; 
which the lelfee for years, &c. may of common right, 
take in his ground leafed. 
HEDGE-BREAKERS,/ Byftat.43 Eliz. c. 7, thofe 
who are detecied in breaking hedges fliall pay fuch da¬ 
mages as a juftite of the peace Ihall think fit; and, if not 
able to pay the damages, fliall be committed to the con- 
ftable to be whipped. And by flat. 15 Car. II. c. t, 
conftables, and others, may apprehend perfons fufpeCt- 
ed of hedge-ftealing, and carry them before a juftice ; 
where not giving a good account how they came by 
wood, &c. they are not only to make fych recompence 
as the juftice of peace (hall adjudge, but pay a fum not 
exceeding ten (hillings for the ufie of. the poor, or be 
fent to the lioufe of correction for a month,; perfons con¬ 
victed of Buying ftolen wood, fliall forfeit treble value 
to him from whom taken. 
HEDGE-CREEPER,/.' One that Ikulks under hedges 
for bad purpofes. 
HEDGE-HOG, f. An animal fet with prickles, very 
fimilar,- but on a (mailer fcale, to thofe of the porcu¬ 
pine. For its natural hiftory and fpecies, fee the arti¬ 
cle Erinaceus, vol. vi. p. 902, and the correfpondent 
Engraving. 
HEDGE-HYS'SOP, f. in botany. See Gratiola. 
HEDGE-MUS'TARD, /. in botany.. See Sisym¬ 
brium and Erysium. 
HEDGE-NET'TLE, f. in botany. See Galeofsis. 
HEDGE-NOTE, /. A word of contempt for. low- 
writing.—When they began to be fomewhat better bred, 
they left their hedge-notes tor another fort of poem, which 
was alfo full of pleafant raillery. Dryden. 
HEDGE-PIG, f. A young hedge-hog : 
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin’d. Shakefpeare. 
HEDGE-ROW, f The feries of trees or bufhes 
planted for inclofures: 
Sometime walking not unfeen 
By hedge-row elms on hillocks green. Milton. 
HEDGE-SPARROW, f. A fparrow that lives in 
bullies. See the article Motacilla. 
The hedge-fparrow fed the cuckoo fo long, 
That it had its head bit off by its young. Sidney. 
HEDG'ER, f. One who makes hedges.—He would 
be laughed at, that Ihould go about to make a fine 
dancer out of a country hedger at paft fifty. Locke. 
HEDG'ING, f The act of making hedges ; the fences. 
HEDG'ING-BILL, f. A cutting hook ufed in making 
hedges ; the fame withHAND-BiLL.—Here comes mafter 
Dametas with a hedging-bill in his hand. Shakefpeare. 
HED'JAS, a confidenvble province of Arabia, bound¬ 
ed on the ealt by Nejed, on the north by.the defert of 
Sinai, on the fouth by Yemen, and on the weft by the 
Arabian Gulf. It contains the cities of Mecca, Me¬ 
dina, and Taaif, with many other conliderable towns 
and villages. On the coal! are feveral good harbours ; 
and in the interior is a range of elevated ground called 
the Highlands ; which produce abundance of fruits, and 
other commodities of various kinds. The celebrated 
balm of Mecca comes from thefe lofty regions., but 
chiefly.from the extenlive mountain called Safra, which 
is three days journey front the Arabian Gulf, 
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