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terum Mazhematicorum Opera, Grace £? Latine, pteraque nunc 
primum eclita, folio. In 1695, he gave to the public his 
treatife Dc , Mechanique, i2ino. and in 1702 engravings of 
tyvo planilpheres, fixteen inches in diameter, from defigns 
made by himfelf. Befides the works already mentioned, 
M. de la Hire was the author of a valt number of valua¬ 
ble papers', publiihed in the Memoirs of the Academy of 
Sciences, from 1666 to 1718. His days were almoft uni¬ 
formly fpent in clofe ftudy, or in difeharging his profef- 
fional engagements ; and a confiderable part of his nights 
was frequently devoted to aftronomical obfervations. He 
enjoyed, notwithflanding, a good ftate of health, till 
within a month of his death, which took place in 1718, 
after he had completed the feventy-eighth year of his age. 
M. de la Hire had a fon, wdio was in fome degree the 
heir of his genius. He was born at Paris, in 1677; and 
by the proofs which he afforded of his proficiency, in 
numerous memoirs which were read at the fittings of the 
Academy of Sciences, he acquired fuch reputation, that 
in 1699 he was chofen a member of that body. In 1701, 
he publiihed an Ephantris, calculated from his father’s af- 
tronomical tables : a^ work which he continued for five 
years, under the fignature of Gabriel Philip, to diftinguifli 
them from his father’s productions. His next publication 
was a new edition of Mathurin Jouffe’s treatife on Car¬ 
pentry, with corrections and confiderable enlargements. 
Upon the death of his father, he was appointed his fiuc- 
celfor in all his employments : but, owing to the infirm 
ftate of his health, it was judged prudent for him to de¬ 
cline the profefforfhip of mathematics in the Royal Col¬ 
lege. Notwithflanding the feeblenefs of his conftitutipn, 
however, he went with MM. CafTini and Maraldi to 
Dunkirk, to afiift in carrying on the meridian line from 
Paris to the northern extremity of the kingdom, but fell 
a facrifice to his application in 1719, when about forty- 
two years of age. 
HPRELING,/. [from hire.'] One who ferves for wages : 
The hireling longs to fee the fhades defeend, 
That with the tedious day his toil might end. Sandys. 
A mercenary ; a proftitute : 
Now fhe fhades the evening walk with bays, 
No hireling fhe, no proftitute to praife. Pope. 
HPRELING, adj. Serving for hire ; venal; mercenary ; 
doing what is done for money: 
Then trumpets, torches, and a tedious crew 
Of hireling mourners, for his funeral due. Dryden. 
HI'RER,yi [from hire.'] One who ufes any thing, pay¬ 
ing a recompence ; one who employs others, paying wages. 
In Scotland it denotes one who keeps frnall horles to let. 
HIR'GUM, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Avon four miles below Dolgeliy, in the county of Me¬ 
rioneth. 
HI'RING, f. [from hired] In law, a contraft, by which 
a qualified property is transferred to the hirer. Hiring is 
always for a price, ftipend, or recompence. By this cop- 
traft the poffeffion and a tranfient property is transferred 
for a particular time or ufe, on condition and agreement 
to reftore the goods or things fo hired, as foon as the time 
is expired, or ufe performed ; together with the price or 
ftipend, either exprefsly agreed on by the parties, or left 
to be implied by law, according to the value of the fer- 
vice. 2 Blachft.'Comm. 454.. See the.article Bailment, 
vol. ii. p. 629-531. 
HIR'MUND, a river of Afia, which rifes in the Hin¬ 
doo Kho mountain, and lofes itfelf in a lake, in the pro¬ 
vince of Chorafan, in Perfia. 
IIIRN'HEIM (Jerome), a learned abbot, who became 
doctor and profeffor of divinity, abbot of Strahoven, and 
papal vicar-general throughout Bohemia, Auftria, Mora¬ 
via, and Silefia. He died in 1679, when about forty-four 
years of age. He is claffed among modem philofophical 
Iceptics, on account of the attempt which he made to 
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fupport the interefts of fuperftition and fanaticifm, by de¬ 
claiming on the imbecility of human reafon. This was 
the objeCt of his laborious work, entitled, De Typho.gene¬ 
ris humani, five Scicntiarum hwnanariim inani ac ventofo Tu- 
tnore, Difficultate, Labilitale, Fa/Jitate, JaElantia, Prf/umpti- 
one, &c. 1676, 4to. 
HIRPIfNI, in ancient geography, a people of Italy, 
next to the Samnites, to the fouth-eaft, and defeendan’ts 
from them; fituated to the north of the Picentini, and 
to the weft of the Apuli, having on the north the Apen- 
nine and a part of Samnium. The name is derived from 
hirpus, a term denoting a wolf in their language ; either be- 
caufe under the conduCt of this animal the colony was 
led and fettled, according to Strabo ; or becaufe, like that 
prowling animal, they lived on plunder, according to 
Servius. 
HIR'SAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCl of 
Angouleme : feven miles weft of Angouleme. 
HIR'SCHAU, a town of Germany, in Bavaria, and 
Upper Palatinate : fix miles nortn-eaft of Amberg. 
HIRSCH'BACH, a town of Germany, in the empire 
of Auftria: five miles eaft-north-eaft of Weitra. 
HIRSCII'BERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Boleflau : twelve miles north-weft of Jung Buntzel. 
HIRSCH'BERG, a tofvn of Silefia, in the principality 
of Jauer, and, next to Breflau, the molt confiderable 
trading town in Silefia, with confiderable manufactures 
in the tow n and neighbouring villages. The churches in 
the town belong to the Roman Catholics; but the Lu¬ 
therans, by paying 30,000 ducats as a gift to the empe¬ 
ror, and a loan of 100,000 florins, obtained a privilege of 
erefting a church and fchool, without the walls. In the 
year 1549, it was burnt down ; in the year 1633, it was 
pillaged by the Saxons, and in 1634 burned by the Im¬ 
perial troops : twenty miles fouth weft Jauer, and twenty- 
two fouth-fouth-eaft of Buntzlau. 
HIRSCH'BERG, a town of Germany, in Franconia, 
and bifhopric of Aichftadt ; twenty-two miles north-eaft: 
of Aichftadt. 
HIRSCH'BERG, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and county of Reufen : four miles north-weft of 
Hoff, and nine eall-fouth-eaft of Lobenftein. Lat. 50. 18. 
N. Ion. 29. 36. E. Ferro. 
HIRSCH'FELD, a town of Germany, in Upper Saxo¬ 
ny : feven miles fouth of Zwickau. 
HIRSCH'BORN, a town of Germany, on the Lower 
Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : feven miles eaft of Hei- 
delburg, and twelve fouth of Erbach. 
HIRSCH'OLM, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 
Zealand, which owes its origin to an ancient caftle, which 
has long been deftroyed, and a new one ereCted on the 
fpot: twelve miles north of Copenhagen. 
HIR'SON, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Ver- 
vins : two leagues and three quarters north-eaft of Ver- 
vins, and nine north-north-eall of Laon. 
BURST, J. [Saxon.] A grove, a frnall wood. - 
HIR'SUTE, adj. [from hirfutus, Lat.] Rough; rug¬ 
ged.—There are bulbous, fibrous, and hirfute, roots: the 
hirfute is a middle fort, between the bulbous and fibrous. 
Bacon. 
HIRTEL'LA, f \_hirtus, Lat. from the hairinefs of the 
branches.] I11 botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, or¬ 
der monogynia, natural order of rofacese, JvJf. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx : perianthium one leafed, five- 
parted; parts fubovate, reflex, unequal, permanent. Co¬ 
rolla : petals five, roundifh, concave. Stamina : filaments 
three or five, briftle-fhaped, flattifli, very long, permanent, 
at length rolled in fpirallyantherse orbiculate. Piftil- 
lum : germ roundifh, compreffed and declining, villofe ; 
ftyle filiform, almoft the length of the ftamens, arifing 
from the depreffed fide of the germ ; ftigma Ample. Pe- 
ricarpium : berry oval, broader at the top, a little com- 
prefled, cbfcurely-three-cornered, at whofe bale in front 
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