mt h i, c 
good hot-houfe; for thofe which will not, we muft have 
fecourfe to the countries where they grow naturally. 
Mod of them are perennial, and may alfo be propa¬ 
gated by cuttings; particularly .the China rofe, which 
is the tnoft ornamental of them all. i 
JIIBIS'CUS MALVAVIS'CUS. See Achania. 
HIBPSI, a townof Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 
Caramania : eighty miles weft of Satalia. 
HI'BRAHIM, or St. Mary, an ifland in the Indian 
Ocean, near the ifland of Madagafcar: fifty miles long 
and fourteen wide. Lat. 16. 32. S. Ion. 72. 48. E. Ferro. 
Hl'BRID, or Hibris,/ [Latin.] A mongrel or mule; 
alfo one born of parents of different countries. 
m.C'CIUS DOC'CIUS,/. [Corrupted from hie eft 
do5lus\ this, or here, is the learned man; ufed by jugglers 
of themfelves.] A cant word for a juggler j one that 
plays faft and loofe. 
HIC'COUGH,or Singultus./ A fpafmodic affettion 
of the ftomach, cefophagus, and'mufcles fubfervient to 
deglutition, arifmg from fome temporary oppreftion of 
the ftomach, cefophagus, diaphragm, &c. andfometimes 
from a general affedtion of the nervous fyftem. 
HICE'TAS, or Nicetas, the Syracusan, an an¬ 
cient philosopher and aftronomer, who taught that the 
fun and the ftars. were fixed, and that the globe of the 
earth had a rotatory motion, like a wheel. From a 
comparifon of his opinions with thofe of other ancient 
philofophers, Copernicus appears to have derived the 
firft hint of his true fyftem of the univerfe. He flpu- 
riffied 334 years before Chrift. 
HICK'ERY, a townof the American States, in Penn¬ 
sylvania: twenty miles north-eaft of Fort Franklin. 
HJCK'ERY,/ in botany. See Juglans. 
HICKES (George), a learned Englifli divine, and a 
biffiop among the nonjurors, born at Newfhatn-in York- 
fhiie, in .1642. He was educated in the rudiments of 
grammar at North Allerton; and in 1659, was admitted 
a fervitor at St. John’s college, in Oxford. Soon after 
the reftoration he removed to Magdalen college, where 
lie took his degree of B. A. in 1662. He afterwards re¬ 
moved to Magdalen-hall; whence, in 1664, he was 
elected a fellow of Lincoln college. He commenced 
M. A. in 1665, and in the following year was admitted 
into holy orders. He foon after accepted an offer made 
him by ftr George Wheeler, who had been one of his 
pupils, to accompany him in his travels. They fet out 
on their tour in November, 1673, vifiting the different 
rovinces of France. While Mr. Hickes was at Paris, 
e became acquainted with Mr. Henry Juftell, who 
informed him of an intention in the court to revoke the 
edi6t of Nantes; and fent by him.the original manufeript 
in Greek of the Canones Eccltfue Univerfalis, which had 
been publifhed by his father, to be prefented to the 
univerfity of Oxford. In 1679 he was created doctor of 
divinity at Oxford ; foon after which the king collated 
him to a prebend in the cathedral-church of Worcefter; 
and in the following year Dr. Sancroft, archbifhop of 
Canterbury, prefented him to the vicarage of Allhallows, 
near the Tower of London. In 1681 he was made chap, 
lain in ordinary to the king, who, in 1683, promoted 
him to the deanery of Worcefter. Upon the revolution 
in 168.8, Dr. Hickes having refufed, with many others, 
to take the oaths of allegiance to king William and 
queen Mary, he fell under fufpenfion in 1689, and was 
deprived of his benefices in the beginning of the fol¬ 
lowing year. He was now employed on a commiffion 
attended with no little perfonal hazard, by archbifhop 
Sancroft and the other nonjuring bifhops, who had made 
a facrifice of their dignities, becaufe they conceived 
themfelves bound in confcience to maintain the allegi¬ 
ance which they had fworn to king James. Tliefe pre¬ 
lates, apprehending that the epifcopal fucceffiori among 
thofe who adhered to their party was in danger of being 
broken, unlefs meafures were adopted for its conti¬ 
nuance,, and having, agreed on the necefiity of appointing 
H I D 
new bifhops, they determined to fend Dr. Hickes to 
France with a lift of the deprived clergy, to confult 
king James upon the Subject. He fet out on this bu(i~ 
nefs in the fpring of 1693, and had feveral audiences 
of the king, who gave his approbation to the Scheme of 
appointing new bifhops, and nominated to that office 
Such individuals in the lift fent from England as were 
raoli acceptable to his adherents. Dr. Hickes arrived 
in England in February 1694; and the new bifhops were 
confecrated on the eve of St. Matthias, by the deprived 
bifhops, Dr. Lloyd of Norwich, Dr. Turner of Ely, and 
Dr. White of Peterborough, at the Rev. Mr. Giffard’s 
houfe, in South-gate. On this occafion Dr. Hickes was 
confecrated Suffragan bifliop of Thetford, in which dig¬ 
nity he continued during the remainder of his life. He 
lived above twenty years after his confecration, and 
died in 1715, when in the feventy-fourth year of his age. 
He was a man of very extenfivelearning, andparticularly 
fkilled in the old northern languages and in antiquities. 
Of his integrity he afforded abundant evidence, by the 
facrifices to which he fubmitted rather than fuffer his 
confcience to be violated ; and his moral conduct is faid 
to have been unexceptionable and exemplary. The 
principal of his works were, 1. Injlitutiones Grammatics 
Anglo-Saxonics & M&fc-Gotkica, € 3 c. 1689, 4to. 2. Antique 
Literatures Septentrionalis Libri duo, &c. 1705, foyo, which 
is held in high eftiination on the continent, as well as in 
this country; and three volumes of Sermons, the Iaft 
of which was publifhed after his death. Befides thefe, 
Dr. Hickes wrote a multitude of treatifes in defence of 
himfelf and the reft of the nonjurors, and their religious 
tenets. 
HJCK/LING, a (mall town of Norfolk, with a weekly 
market on Saturdays; fituated in a marfhy ground, not 
far from the fea: 119 miles from London. 
HICK'MAJ'iS, a Settlement of the American States, 
in Fayette county, Kentucky, on the north fide of Ken. 
tucky river: ten miles north of Danville, and twenty- 
two South of Lexington. 
To HICK'UP, v.n. [corrupted from hiccough .] To fob 
with a convulfed ftomach ; to be aftedted with tjie Sin¬ 
gultus; 
Quoth he, to bid me not to loVe, 
Is to forbid my pulfe to move, 
My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, 
Or, when I’m in a fit, to hickup. Hudibras. 
HID, or Hidden, part. pajf. of hide: 
Thus fame ffiall be atchiev’d, renown on earth; 
And what moft merits fame, in filence hid. Milton.. 
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night: 
God faid, Let Newton be ; and all was light. Pope. 
HID ISLAND, an ifland of the American States, 
fituated on the north-weft territory; in Plein river, 
which is the northern head-water of the Illinois. 
HI'DAGE,/. [ hidagium, Lat.] An extraordinary ffix 
payable anciently to the kings of England for every hide 
of iand. This taxation was levied not only in money, 
but in provifion, armour, &c. and, when the Danes 
landed at Sandwich in 994, king Ethelred taxed all his 
lands by hides; fo that every 310 hides found one fhip 
furnifhed, and every eight hides furniffied one jack and 
one faddle, to arm for the defence of the kingdom, &c. 
Sometimes the fame word, or the word hidegild, was 
ufed for the being quit of that tax. 
HIDAL'GO,/. A title given in Spain to an inferior 
order of nobility. See the article Spain. 
HID'DIKEL, the name of the third river of Paradife. 
Gen. ii. 14. Dan. x. 4. 
To HIDE, v.a. preter. hid ; part, paff. hid or hidden, 
[Jjiban, Sax.] To conceal; to withhold or withdraw 
from fight or knowledge.—Avaunt, and quit my fight j 
let the earth hide thee 4 Shahc/pcar.e. 
Then for my corpfe a homely grave provide, 
Which love and me from public fcorn may hide. Drydm: 
