HEM 
ferruginous hair. The whole frond is like the leaf of 
the creeping ranunculus. Found between Savanna and 
Two-mile wood in Jamaica ; alfo in Martinico, by Plu¬ 
nder. 
5. Hemionitis Japonica, or Japan mule-fern: fronds 
bipinnate ; pinnas lanceolate, entire. Native of Japan. 
6. Hemionitis reticulata, or reticulated mule-fern ? 
fronds lanceolate-fickled, quite entire ; veins netted. 
Native of the Society Ifles. 
7. Hemionitis efculenta, or eatable mule-fern : frond 
pinnate ; pinnas alternate, lanceolate, cfenate, (lightly 
eared at the bafe. A foot and half high or more. Roots 
efculent. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe are plants feldom pro¬ 
pagated in.gardens. They mud be procured from the 
countries where they naturally grow ; planted in pots 
filled with loamy undunged earth, and placed in the 
(love ; in fummer they mud be frequently watered, but 
in winter they require little. In fummer they fhould 
have plenty of free air. See Adiantum, Asplenium, 
Polypodium, and P-teris. 
HEMI'OPE, f. An ancient flute with fmall holes. 
HEMIPA'GI A, f. [from Gr. half, and 7r«y«o;, 
fixed.] A fixed pain on one fide of the head. 
HEMIPLE'GI A,_/i[from «pt(crt's, Gr.half, andw^c- eru, 
to (trike.] A paralytic affediion of one (ide of the body. 
HEMIP'TER A, f. In the Linnasan fyftem, the fe- 
cond order of infedts;. for which lee the article Ento¬ 
mology, vol. v. p. 832, and the correfpondent En¬ 
graving. 
HEMIRHOM'BIUM,/ [from Gr. half, and 
to revolve.] In furgery, a bandage which goes 
half-way round the part to which it is fixed. 
HEMISPHERE, f. Xhemifphere, Fr.] The half of a 
globe when it is fuppofed to be cut through its centre 
in the plane of one of its greateft circles.—The fun is 
more powerful in the northern hemifphere, and in the apo- 
geum ; for therein his motion is flower. Brown. 
In open profpedl nothing bounds our eye, 
Until the earth feems join’d unto the (ky ; 
So in thi $ hemifphere our utmofl view 
Is only bounded by our king and you. Dryden. 
HEMISPHERIC, or Hemispherical, adj. [from 
hemifphere. ] Half round ; containing half a globe.—-The 
thin film of the water fwells above the furface of the 
water it fwims on, and commonly conftitutes hemifpheri- 
cal bodies with it. Boyle. 
HEMISPHEROl'DAL, adj. Belonging to the half 
of a fpheroid. 
HEM'ISTICH, /. \_hemifliche, Fr. Gr.] In 
poetry, denotes half a verfe, or a verie not completed. 
Of this there are frequent examples in Virgil’s .Eneid ; 
bur whether they were left unfiniflied by defign or not, 
is difputed among the learned : fuch are, Ferro accinbla 
vocat, JEn. II. v. 614. And, Italiam non Jponte fcquor, 
aEn. IV. v. 361.—In reading Englifli verles, a (hort 
paufe is required at the end of each hemijlich, or half-verfe. 
HEM'ITONE, /. in the andient mu fie, the fame with 
what we now call a half-note or femitone. 
HEM1T RITiE'US, f. [from Gr.half, and rgi- 
third.] The medical term for that kind of fever 
which confilts of intermitting tertian and a continual 
quotidian. 
HEM'LOCK, common; fee Conium. Water; fee 
Cicuta. 
HEM'LOCK, a large lake belonging to the Ameri¬ 
can States., twelve miles long, and one broad, in the 
Geneffee county, and State of New York. 
HEMMAU', a town of Germany, in the circle of Ba¬ 
varia, and principality of Neuburg : eight miles eaft of 
Dietfurt, and twelve weft of Ratifbon. 
HEM'MENDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
©f Lower Saxony, and principality of Calenberg, fttu- 
ated on the Saale : twelve miles eaft ofHameln, 
Vol. IX. No. 593. 
HEM 389 
HEM'MING, f. The aft of fuenifhing with a hem ; 
a peculiar kind of needlework. 
HEMMIN'GA (Sixtus de>, a Dutch mathematician 
of Eaft Friezland, born in 1533. He was educated at 
Louvain, where he chiefly applied himfelf to the ftudy 
of the mathematics and aftronomy, under the inftruc- 
tions of Reinier Gemma, one of the bed aftronomers of 
his time. As the fcience of judicial aftrology was at 
that time much in vogue with men of eminence in the 
literary world, among whom were Leowicz, Cardan, 
and Luca Gaurico ; he determined to enter into a for¬ 
mal refutation of it. With this view he entered the 
lifts againft thofe champions of aftrology, in a treatife 
entitled AJlrologia Ratione & Expertentia refutata Liber , 
publilhed at Antwerp in 15.83, 4to. By the manner in 
which this work was executed, he afforded fair expec¬ 
tations that the interefts of fcience would be benefited 
by his fubfequent exertions; but they were difappoint- 
ed by his premature death, which took place in 15710, 
when only thirty-feven years of age. 
HEMMIN'GIUS (Nicholas)i, a learned Danifli di. 
vine, born in tfie Ifle of Laland, in 1513. He acquired 
the firft rudiments of learning in different fchools in La- 
land, Falfter, and.Zealand; and afterwards graduated 
at the univerfity of Wittemberg, where Melandthon 
then taught with high reputation. He afterwards re. 
turned to Denmark, with honourable teftimonials to lfis 
abilities, diligence, and improvement ; and a letter of 
recommendation from Melandthon, which proved his 
introdudlion into the family of a noble Dane, in the 
capacity of tutor to his daughters. Afterwards he was 
appointed minifter of the church of the Holy-Ghoft as 
Copenhagen; which promotion was fucceeded by his 
nomination to the profeflorfliip of the Hebrew language 
in the univerfity of that city. In 1557 he took his de¬ 
gree of doctor of divinity, and immediately afterwards 
was made profeflor of the fame faculty at Copenhagen. 
The duties of that office he difeharged with diftinguifh- 
ed reputation, till 1579, when he was declared Emeritus, 
and permitted to retire from his labours, with the re¬ 
ward of a canonry in the church of Rpfchild. That 
preferment he held till his death in 1^00, at the ad¬ 
vanced age of eighty-feven years. He was the author 
of a great variety of exegetical, didadtic, and polemical, 
works. In 1586, Simon Goulart publifhed A Collec¬ 
tion of his Theological Treatifes, at Geneva, in folio. 
HEM'ORRHAGE, or Hem'orragy, f. 
Gr. hemorragie, Fr.] A violent flux of blood.—Twenty 
days fafting will not diminilh its quantity fo much as one 
great hemorrhage. Arbuthnot. 
HEM'ORRHOIDS,/. [aipu>ppoi£sj,Gr. hemorrhoides,Vr.'] 
The piles ; the emrods. 
HEMORRHOI'D AL, adj. [ hemorrhoidale , Fr. from he¬ 
morrhoids. ] Belonging to the veins in the fundament.—■ 
Befides there are hemorrhages from the nofe and hemor¬ 
rhoidal veins, and fluxes of rheum. Ray. 
Emboft upon the field, a battle flood 
Of leeches, fpouting hemorrhoidal blood. Garth. 
HE'MOTH, or Ha'moth, [Hebrew.] The name of 
a city. 
HEMP, f. [haenep, Sax. hampe, Dut.] A fibrous 
plant, of which coarfe linen and cordage are made. 
For its natural hiftory, fee under its generical name 
Cannabis, vol. iii. p. 730-732. Though hemp is ber 
come fo valuable in modern commerce, we find but few 
notices of it in antiquity. M. Mongez, of the French 
National Inftitute, while employed in refearches refpedt- 
ing the coftume of the ancients, endeavoured to difeover 
and deferibe the different fubftances which they em¬ 
ployed for their veftments, arms, &c. Particular rea- 
fons induced him to detach from his work an effay on 
the ufe which the ancients made of hemp. Hefiod and 
Homer do not mention this vegetable. Herodotus fays, 
that it refembles flax, from which it differs only in fize 
