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To be off the Hinges. To be in a ftate of irregularity 
and diforder.—The man’s fpirit is out of order, and off 
the hinges ; and, till that be put into its right frame, he 
will be perpetually difquieted. Tillotfon. 
Methinks we Hand on ruins, Nature fnakes 
About us, and this univerfal frame 
So loofe, that it but wants another pulh 
To leap from off its hinges. Dryden. 
To HINGE, v. a. To furnifh with hinges. To bendas 
an hinge: 
Be thou a flatt’rer now, and hinge the knee, 
And let his very breath, -whom thou’lt oblerve, 
Blow off thy cap. '' Shakefpeare. 
To HINGE, v.a. To turn as upon a hinge ; to hang, to 
flick. 
HINGEON', a town of the county of Namur: eight 
miles north-weft of Namur. 
HING'HAM, or, as it was formerly written, Hincham, 
in the county of Norfolk, was the head town of the dean¬ 
ery, and at firft contained forty-three parifhes. It was'a 
very confideratle town, with a market on Saturdays, and 
three fairs, on March 6, Whit-Tuefday, and October 2'. 
The turnpike-road from Norwich to Watton pafles through 
it; and alfo the crofs-road from Attleburgh to Eaft Dere¬ 
ham,'&c. Hingham is fourteen miles from Norwich, feven 
from Watton, and ninety-eight from London. The houfes 
are neatly built, but the ftreets are irregular. The church 
is a venerable pile, the tower being very tall and large ; 
the whole was rebuilt by Remigius de Hetherfet, in the 
time of Edward III. It is dedicated to St. Andrew the 
apoftle, and had feveral chapels in it; and there were no 
lefs than feven guilds held in the church, each having a 
ftipendiary chaplain, ferving at their altars, and conftituted 
a choir. There are feveral curious monuments in the 
church, with other fubjefts of antiquity. 
HING'HAM, a poft-town of the American States, in 
Suffolk county, Mafiachufetts, fituated on a fmall bay. 
It contains two congregational churches, and a well-en¬ 
dowed fchool, called, in honour of its principal founder, 
Derby School: nineteen miles fouth-eaft of Bofton, and 
twenty-two from Plymouth. The townfhip was incor¬ 
porated in 1635, and contains by the cenfus 2085 inhabi¬ 
tants. Here are fix corn-mills, three faw-mills, and a 
fulling-mill; four of which are tide-mills. Two eminences 
in this town, one of which is called Baker’s Kill, prefent 
extenfiveand delightful profpefts of Bofton Bay, its illands, 
and the adjacent country. 
HIN'GING, f. The aft of furnifhing with hinges. 
HINGUET'TE, a remarkable rock near the fouth coaft 
of the ifland of Jerfey : two miles fouth of St. Helier. 
HIN'IGAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak : one hundred miles weft of Bafiora. 
HIN'KA, a lake of Chinefe Tartary, about thirty-fix 
leagues in circumference. Lat. 44. 35. N. Ion. 150.15. E. 
Ferro. 
HIN'KAN, a chain of mountains of Chinefe Tartary, 
which reach from lat. 53. to 54. N. Ion. 152. to 155.E,Ferro. 
HIN'NA, J. The female hind ; the fhe mule. Phillips. 
HIN-NGAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Quang-fi: thirty miles north-eaft of 
Kouei-ling. 
HIN'NOM, or the Valley of Hinnom, in Scripture 
geography, a place that .lay to the fouth of Jerufalem. It 
was alio called the Valley of Tophet; and was remark¬ 
able for the cruel and execrable worlhip of the god Mo¬ 
loch, where parents made their children pals through the 
fire in honour of that idol. 
HIN'NULUS, f. A young hind ; a fawn ; a little mule. 
Phillips. 
HIN'NUS, f. A mule from a horfe and a fne-afs ; a hind ; 
a little nag. Phillips. 
HINOJA'RES, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Jaen : fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Ubeda. 
HIP 
HINOJO'SA, a town of Spain, in the province of Leont 
twenty-five miles north-north-weft of Civdad Rodrigo. 
HINOJO'SA, a towm of Spain, in the province of Eftre- 
madura: fixteen miles north of Llerena. 
HINOJO'SA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: ten 
miles north of Molina. 
HINOJO'SAS (Las), a town of Spain, in New Caftile : 
thirty-fix miles fouth of Hueta. 
HIN-PIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chen-fi : twenty-three miles weft from Si-ngah. 
HIN'SCHENFELD, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holftein: five miles north-eaft of Hamburgh. 
HINS'DALE, the fouth-eafternmoft townfhip of the 
American States, in Vermont, and in Windham county. 
It contains 482 inhabitants. 
HINS'DALE, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Chefhire county, New Hampfhire, on the eaft bank of 
Connefticut river, where the fouth line of the ftate Itrikes 
the river in lat. 42. 43. 59. N. and is oppofite to Hinfdale 
in Vermont. It was incorporated in 1753, and contains 
522 inhabitants: thirty-eight miles from Northampton, 
and 114 from Portftnouth. 
To HINT, v. a. [enter, Fr. Shinner. To bring to mind 
by a flight mention, or remote allufion; to mention itn~ 
perfectly: 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to ftrike, 
Juft hint a fault, and hefitate diflike. Pope. 
In waking whifpers, and repeated dreams. 
To hint pure thought, and warn the favour’d foul. Thomfon , 
To Hint at. To allude to; to touch flightly upon.— 
Speaking of Auguftus’s aftions, he ftill remembers that 
agriculture ought to be fome way hinted at throughout the 
whole. AdcliJ'on. 
HINT, J. Faint notice given to the mind ; remote allu- 
fion; diftant inlinuation.—Let him ftriftly obferve the firft 
ftirrings and intimations, the firft hints and whifpers, of 
good and evil, that pafs in his heart. South. —Suggeftion; 
intimation.—Aftions are lb full of circumftances, that, as 
men obferve fome parts more than others, they take dif¬ 
ferent hints, and put different interpretations on them. 
Addifon. 
HINTBRGERS'DORF, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony: eight miles eaft of Freyburg. 
HINTERSE'E, a lake of Germany, in Bavaria, and 
provoftfhip of Berchtolfgaden: fix miles weft of Bercn- 
tolfgaden. 
HINT'ING, [. The aft of giving a hint. 
HINZUAN'. See Joanna. 
HI'O, a town of Sweden, in the province of Weft Goth¬ 
land, fituated off the Wetter lake, with a good ialmon- 
fiftsery: leventy-five miles eaft of Uddevalia. 
HI'ONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Pe-tcheli: thirty miles eaft-north-eaft of Pao- 
ting. 
HI'ONG-TCHU'EN, a town of the kingdom of Corea t 
fifty-feven miles fouth-eaft of Kang-tcheou. 
HIOR'RING, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland, 
and diocefe of Aalborg, once a large place, and the fee of 
a biihop, with three churches; but in the year 1693 it 
was almoft deftroyed by fire-, the bifhopric was removed 
to Aalboi'g by Frederic II. It is twenty-feven miles north- 
north-weft of Aalborg. 
HIOR'TED, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : fixty miles north of Calmar. 
HIP, f. [Iryppe, Sax.] The joint of the thigh.—How 
now, which of your hips has the mod profound Iciatica? 
Shakefpeare. —The haunch; the flefh of the thigh : 
So ftiepherds ufe 
To fet the fame mark on the hip 
Both of their found and rotten Iheep. Hudibras. 
Tiie Hoping cqrner or return of a roof; the rafter which 
forms the Hoping corner or column of a roof. 
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