HEN 
London, where for a long time his works were edeemecf, 
though now funk in value. He had a whimfical imagi¬ 
nation, and delighted in compofing fanciful fubjebts ; 
fuch as the temptation of St. Anthony, nofhirnal inter- 
courfes of witches and fpebtres, enchantments, See. which 
lie executed with a free pencil and a fpirited touch. It 
was cudornary with him to introduce his own portrait 
'among-the converfations he defigned. 
HEMS'TERHUIS (Tiberius), a learned critic, the 
fon of a phyfician of Groningen,'where he was bornfin 
1685. He ftudied fird in the univerfity of that place, 
from whence he removed to Leyden, for the advantage 
of attending the lectures of Perizonius. In 1705 he 
was invited to the profefforfliip of mathematics and phi- 
lofophy in the fchpol of Ainderdam. He quitted that 
fituation in 1717,. on being chofen Greek profeffor at 
Franeker, to which office was added the chair of hidory 
in 1738. Both thefe profefforfliips were conferred upon 
him at Leyden in 1740. He died there in 1766, aged 
eighty-one. His earlied publication was an edition of 
the lad three books of the Onomafticon of Julius Pol¬ 
lux, in 1706. His other publications were : 1. Selebt 
Dialogues, and the Timon of Lucian, 1761; part of an 
edition of the fame author, which appeared in 1743, in 
3 vols. 4to. 2. The Plutus of Aridophanes, with the 
Scholia and Notes, 1744. 3. Notes and Emendations 
on Xenophon Ephefius, inferted in the Mifcellanea Cri- 
tica of Amderdam. 4. Obfervations on Chryfodom’s 
Homily on- the Epidle to Philemon, in Raphelius’s An¬ 
notations on the New Tedament. 5. Inaugural Speeches. 
6 . Letters to I. M. Gefner and others. His criticifms 
are accounted excellent, both from the great extent of 
his erudition, and his fagacity in applying it. 
HE'MUSE,/ A hunting term: a roe of the third 
year. 
HEMY'ARITE, in ancient geography, one of a cer¬ 
tain race of Arabian kings. See vol. ii. p. 2. 
HEN, f. [henne, Sax. and Dut. hahn, Germ, a cock. ] 
The female of domedic po.ultry : 
One ancient hen die took delight to feed, 
The -plodding pattern of the Jmfy dame : 
Which pver and anon impell’d by need, 
Into her fchool, begirt with chickens, came. Shenjlone. 
The female of-any land fowl.—The peacock, pheafant, 
and goldfinch, cocks have glorious, colours ; the hens 
have not. Bacon. 
O’er the tracklefs wade 
The heath-te flutters. Thomfon. 
H EN'-BLINDNESS, / A fpecies of difopia which is 
faid to prevail very much in fome parts of Ruffia. The 
patient lofes his fight at funfet., and does not recover it 
till funrife ; he is blind during the lighted nights of 
dimmer. This difeafe falls chiefly upon the peafants 
during the hay-harved, when they generally, previoufiy 
to their being fo affiifted, work all night, to avoid the 
fultr-y heat of day, and When they deep lefs than ufual. 
There is no pain, nor any external appearance ; and the 
diforder generally goes off fpontaneoufly, though the 
fufl'erers fometimes bathe their eyes witlpa decobtion of 
the Centaurea cyanus, or blue-bottle wee'd. The caufe 
of this amaurofis is evidently an exhauftion of the irrita¬ 
bility of the retina from an excefs of light. 
HEN and CHICK'ENS, mountains of Ireland, in 
the county of Down : eight miles ead of Newry. 
HEN'-DRIVER, Hen-harm, or HEN-HAR'RiER,y'. 
A fpecies of hawk, fo called probably fr'otfi dedroying 
chickens. See the article Falco, vokvii. p. 190. 
HEI4'-HEART£D, adj. Dadardly; cowardly; like 
a hen. A low word. 
HEN'-PECKED, adj. Governed by the wife : 
A depdame too I have, a curfed die. 
Who rules my hen-peck'd fire, and orders me, Dryden, 
HEN 391 
HEN'-ROOST, f. The place where the poultry red. 
—Many a poor devil dands to a whipping-pod for the 
pilfering of a diver fpoon, or the robbing of a hen-roojl. 
L’EJlrange. 
They oft have fally’d out to pillage 
The hen-roojls of fome peaceful village. Tickell. 
HE'NA, the name of a city of Affyria. 2 Kings, xviii. 
34. xix. 13. 
HEN'ADAD, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HENANBI'EN, a town of France, in the department 
of the North Goads,' and chief place of a canton, in the 
didribt of Lamballe : two leagues and a Jialf north-ead 
of Lamballe, and four and a half north-wed of Dinan. 
HENA'O (Gabriel de), a learned Spaniffi Jefuit, born 
in 1611. He entered into the order at Salamanca, and 
fpent the greated part of his life in that univerfity. Af¬ 
ter teaching philofophy and theology, he was admitted 
to the degree of dobtor of divinity, and appointed rec¬ 
tor of the univerfity. He difeharged the duties of his 
pods with great reputation, and was confidered as one 
of the mod learned men in Spain. His works confid of 
eleven volumes folio, all in the Latin language. Nine 
of them comprife treatifes on philofophical, theologi¬ 
cal, and controverfial, fubjebts. There were alfo many 
other fmaller pieces publiihed by this Jefuit, who died 
in.,1.704-, when about ninety-three years of age, after 
having continued to officiate as profeffor till within three 
years of that event. 
HENA'RkS,'a river of Spain, which rifes near Si- 
guenpa, in Old Gadile, and runs into the Xarama ten 
miles above Toledo. 
HENAU'LT (Charles-John-Francis), an elegant wri¬ 
ter, born at Paris in 1685. He was for fome time a 
member of the congregation of the Oratory, where he 
. acquired an extraordinary tade for polite literature. His 
juvenile education, including a courfe of geography and 
hidory, which had been purfued under Claude de l’lfle, 
father of the belebrated .geographer, was uncommonly 
rapid; at the fame time that it was enlivened and 
adorned by the fociety of numerous and refpebtable 
friends, and by an occafional and fuccefsful courtffiip 
of the mufes. From his early years, he was obferved 
to blend acutenefs and facility of apprehenfion with an 
enviable fweetnefs of difpofition. During the two years 
which he paffed in the fociety of the oratory, and which 
he afterward pronounced to be the happied in his life, 
he frequented the theatre without deferting the church, 
and alternately perilled Maffillon and Racine. At the 
age of fixteen, he affumed the habit of the order, and 
compofed a funeral oration on the abbe de Ranee, of 
audere mehiory. As Maffillon, to whole infpe&ion he 
had fubmitted this efiay in pulpit eloquence, was ob¬ 
ferved to fmile at the fird part, and to yawn at the fe- 
cond, its young author, with a degree of refolution 
which has few examples, committed his performance to 
the flames, and took leave of a purfuit in which he pej- 
ceived that he was not formed to excel. In 1706, though 
he had not attained the-legal age, he was admitted a 
counfellor of parliament ; and, in the courfe of the two 
fucceeding years, he obtained the prize of eloquence 
propofed by the French Academy, and that which vyai 
announced by the Society of the Floral Games at Tou- 
loufe. In 1710 he was appointed prefident of the fird, 
chamber of inqueds; a fituation which induced him to 
direbt his attention for feveral years to the dudy of law 
in its various departments. Having accompanied his 
friend, the count de Morville, on his embaffy to the 
Hague, his conciliatory manners-fecured the refpefrand 
attachment of fome of the principal members-of the go¬ 
vernment of the United States, and particularly thofe 
of the grand penfionary Heinfius ; who, in the prefident’s 
company, could defeend from the lofty pretentious of 
ffern republicanifm. On the demife of cardinal Dubois, 
