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noith-aifie window are beautiful paintings of Faith, Hope, 
and Charity, and of the Four Cardinal Virtues ; and, in 
the next north window, the Beatitudes. The front hath 
the twelve apoftles round it, but are much defaced by 
time. In the north and fouth chancels are fome ancient 
and curious monuments. Over the altar-piece is a picture 
of the offerings of the wife men, done by Rubens ; and 
is elleemed one of the moll capital performances of that 
great mailer. This town fuffered by fire on the nth of 
September 1762. Here is a capital free-fchool, well en¬ 
dowed ; and twenty-two alms-houfes, for poor decayed 
men and women of the town of Hitchin. 
HITCH'ING, f The aft of fattening in a peculiar 
manner ; or of catching while in motion. 
HIT'ERO, a town of Spain, in Navarre: ten miles 
well of Tuleda. 
HITHE, f. [hy^e. Sax.] A fmall haven to land wares 
out of veffels or boats : as Queenhithe , and Lambhitke, now 
Lambeth , near London. 
HITHE, Hythe, or Hith, a fmall town on the coall 
of Kent, fituated fix miles to the fouth-weft of Eltham, 
and lixty-nine Ibuth-eaft by eall of London. It was once 
large and populous, and had live churches; but they are 
now reduced to one. This town, which owed its rife 
end profperity to the decay of the neighbouring towns of 
Lyme and Weft Hithe, whole harbours were choaked up 
with fand, having undergone the fame fate, is now almott 
ufelefs, and fcarcely deferves the name of a port. From 
hence to Boulogne is reckoned the Ihorteft paffage to 
France. Here are two hofpitals, dedicated to St. John 
and St. Bartholomew, both under the government of the 
mayor and jurats ; and alfo a charity-fchool for thirty 
boys. In the reign of Henry IV.-molt of the inhabitants 
were carried off by a pellilence, which was fucceeded by 
a fire that confumed two hundred houfes. Soon after 
which calamity, five of the fnips which this town was 
obliged to fit out, were funk at fea, and a hundred men 
drowned. The furviving inhabitants, dilpirited by thefe 
calamities, relolved to leave the place ; but the king en¬ 
couraged them to Hay, by giving them a temporary releafe 
from the fervice due from the town as a cinque port. On 
the 6th of April, 1580, an earthquake rang the bells, and 
damaged many houfes; and in April 1739, while fome 
perfons were waiting in the church-porch for the keys, in 
order to afcend the Iteeple, it fell down with fix bells in 
it: providentially no one was hurt. Here is a remarkable 
pile of dry bones, twenty-eight feet long, fix broad, and 
eight high ; they are kept in a vault under the church, in 
good prefervation, and confift of feveral thoufand heads, 
arms, legs, thigh-bones, &c. feme very gigantic, and ap¬ 
pear by an infeription to be the remains of the Danes and 
Tritons killed in a battle, near this place, before the Nor¬ 
man conqueft. By charter of incorporation, granted by 
queen Elizabeth, this place-^onfilts of a mayor, twelve ju¬ 
rats, and twenty-four connnon-councilmen. The right 
of eleftion is in the mayor, jurats, common-councilmen, 
and freemen. Here are two fairs, July 12, and December 
1 ; and a corn-market every Thurlday. 
HITH'ER, adv. [hi^ep, Sax.] To this place from fome 
other: 
fide.—That which is external can be extended to a greater 
extent, at the kithermojl extreme. Hale. 
HITH'ERTO, adv. [from hither. Yet; to this time.— 
Hitherto I have only told the reader what ought not to be 
the fubjeft of a picture or of a poem. Dryden. —In any 
time tilLnow : 
More ample fpirit than hitherto was wont, 
Here needs me, while the famous ancellries 
Of my moll dreadful fovereign I recount. Fairy Queen. 
At every time till now : 
Hitherto , lords, what your commands impos’d 
I have perform’d, as reafon was, obeying. Milton. 
.HITH'ERWARD, or Hith'erwards, adv. [from, 
hy'Sepfeapo, Sax.] This way : towards this place : 
Look now for no enchanting voice, nor fear 
The bait of honey’d words ; a rougher tongue 
Draws hitherward. Milton. 
HIT'TEN, a town of the American States, in Ann 
Arundel county, Maryland : thirteen miles w'ell-by-fouth 
of Baltimore. 
HIT'TING,/? Theaftof ftriking, or of reaching a mark. 
HIT'SACKER, a town of Germany, in Lower Saxony, 
and principality of Luneburg Zell, fituated on an ifland 
in the Jetze : twenty-nine miles eall of Luneburg, and 
fifty-fix north-eaft of Zell. Lat. 53. 14. N. ion. 28. 48. E. 
Ferro. 
HIT'TENDORF, a town of Germany, in the empire 
of Auftria : thirteen miles well of Zifterllorf. 
HIT'TERO, or Hit'teren, an illand in the Northern 
Ocean, near the coall of Norway, about fixty miles in 
circumference. Lat. 63. 32. N. Ion. 9. 5. E. Greenwich. 
HIT'TITES, in Scripture hillory, the decendants of 
Heth. See Heth. 
HFU, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Honan: 377 miles fouth-l’outh-well of Peking. 
Lat. 34. 5. N. Ion. 131. 21. E. Ferro. 
HI'U-CHI, a town £>f China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Ho-nan : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Kai-fong. 
HIVE, /, [hype, Sax.] The habitation or artificial re¬ 
ceptacle of bees: 
So wand’ring bees would perilh in the air. 
Did not a found, proportion’ll to their ear, 
Appeale their rage, invite them to the hive. Waller. 
The bees inhabiting a hive: 
The commons, like an angry hive of bees 
That want their leader, fcatter up and down. Shakefpeare. 
A company being together.—What modern mafons call a 
lodge, was by antiquity called a hive of free-mafons ; and 
therefore, when a diffenfion happens, the going off is to 
this day called fwarming. Swift. 
To HIVE, v. a. To put into hives ; to harbour.—When 
bees.are fully fettled, and the clutter at the biggeft, hive 
them. Mortimer. —To contain, as in hives 5 to receive, as 
to an habitation: 
Men mult endure 
Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Shakefp. 
It is ufed in oppofition : hither and thither , to this place 
and that. To"this end; to this defign ; to this topic of 
argument: \_huc, Lat. Hue refer exitum.~\ Not much ufed.— 
Hither belong all thofe texts which require of us that we 
ihould not walk after the flelh, but after the fpirit. Til- 
lotfon. 
HITH'ER, adj. fuperl. kithermojl. Nearer; towards 
this part: 
After thefe, 
But on the hither fide, a different fort, 
From the high neighb’ring hills defeended. Milton. 
IIITH'ERMOST, adj. [of hither, adv.] Neareft on this 
Ambitious now to take excife 
Of a more fragrant paradife, 
He at Fufcara’s lleeve arriv’d, 
Where all delicious lweets are hiv’d. Cleaveland. 
To HIVE, v. n. To take flielter together; to refide col- 
leftiveiy.—In fummer we wander in a paradifaical feene, 
among groves and gardens; but at this feafon we get into 
warmer houfes, and hive together in cities. Pope. 
HIVE-DROSS, f. A fort of wax which bees make at 
the mouth of their hives to keep out the cold. 
HrVER,_/ [from kivej One who puts bees in hives.— 
For-the natural hillory, fpecies, and management, of bees, 
fee the article Apis, vol. i. p. 792-798, and the correfpon- 
dent Engravings. 
J & HIVI'NG, 
