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KOCH'STADT, a towA of Bohemia, m Bolellau: ele¬ 
ven miles from Turriau. 
HOCH'STADT, a town of Germany, ori the Upper 
Rhine, and county of Hanau Munzenberg: three miles 
north-weft of Hanau. 
■ HOCH'STATT, a town of Germany, in Franconia, 
• and bifho'pric of Bamberg: eleven miles■ nbrth-weft of 
Erlang-, and thirteen fouth of Bamberg. Lat. 49. 39. N. 
Ion. 28. 32. E. Ferro. 
HOCH'STATT, or Hoch'stett, a town of Germany, 
in BavariaV and principality of Neuburg, fituated on the 
Danube. Near this/lace was fought the celebrated battle 
of Blenheim; fee Blenheim. It is nineteen miles north- 
weft of AAgfburg, and twenty-nine w-eft of Neuburg. 
HOCH'STER. See ILoxter. 
HOCH'STET 1 E.R (Andrew-Adam), a learned Ger¬ 
man Lutheran divine, born at Tubingen in 1668. He 
was-admitted to the degree of doftor, and was fucceftively 
profeffor of eloquence, of moral philofophy, and of divi¬ 
nity, in the univerftty of his native city ; where he died 
in 1717. Among other works, he was the author of, 1. 
Collegium Pujfendorfianum. 2. Do Fejlo Expiationis, & Hirco 
Azazel. 3. De Conradino, ultimo ex Sue vis Duce. 4. De Rebus 
Elbingenftbus, &c. His hiftorical works are held in moft 
eftimation. 
HOCH'WEISH, a town of Hungary: twenty miles 
weft-fouth-weit of Kremnitz. 
HOCK, / [the fame with hough ; hoh, Sax.] The joint 
between the knee and the fetlock. 
To HOCK, v.a. To difable in the hock. 
HOCK, or Hock'Amore, J. [from Hockheim, on the 
Maine.] Old ftrong Rlfenifh.—Wine becomes fharp, as 
hock, like vitriolic acidity. Flayer. 
HOCK-DAY, or Hoke-Day, f. A popular holiday for¬ 
merly kept in England, as mentioned by Matthew Paris 
and other ancient writers. It was called Hock-Tuefday, 
being the fecond Tuefday after Eafter-day; and diftin- 
guifhed, according, to John Roufe, by various fportive 
paftimes, in which the towns-people, divided into parties, 
were accuftomed to bind and draw each other with ropes. 
Spelrnan tells us, “ they confided in the men and women 
binding each other, and efpecially the women the men 
and hence it was called Bindivg-Tuefd'ay. A third author 
informs us that it was cuftomary in feveral manors in 
Hampfhire, for the men to hock the women on the Mon¬ 
day, and the women the men upon the Tuefday; that is, 
on that day the women in merriment flop the ways with 
ropes, and pull the paffengers to them, defiring fomething 
to be laid out in pious ufes, in order to obtain their free¬ 
dom.” Such are the general outlines of this lingular in- 
fti'cution; and the pens of feveral able writers have been 
employed in attempting to inveftigate this origin. Some 
! think it was held in commemoration of the Danes, in the 
reign of Ethelred the Unready, on St. Brice’s day ; others, 
that it was in remembrance of the death of Hardicanute, 
by which event the Englifh were delivered from the into¬ 
lerant government of the Danes. The binding part of the 
ceremony might refer to the abjeft date of flavery in which 
t;te wretched Saxons were held by their imperious lords ; 
and the donations for “ pious ufes ” may be confidered as 
tacit acknowledgments of gratitude to heaven for freeing 
the nation from its bondage. Hock-day was generally 
obferved as lately as the fixteeiith century. We learn from. 
Spelrnan, that it was not totally difcontinued in hjs time; 
.and Piott has noticed fome veftiges of it at the diftance 
of fifty years; but now it is totally abolifhed. 
HOCK-TUESDAY MONEY, a duty formerly given to 
the landlord, that his tenants and bondmen might folemnize 
that day on which the Englilh mattered the Danes. Cowell. '■ 
HOCK'ERLAND, or Oberland. See Oberland. 
HOCK'HEIM, a town of, Germany, on the Lower 
Rhine, and electorate of Mentz, fituated near the conflupt 
-of the Rhine and the Maine, celebrated for its excellent 
wine : fixteen miles weft of Frankfort on tfce Maine, and 
four eaft-north-eaft of Mentz. 
HOD 
HOCK'HEIM, a town of Germany, oh the Upper 
Rhine, and biftiopric of Worms: three miles north-weft 
of Worms. 
HOGK'HOCKING, a river of North America, in the 
north-weft territory, about twenty-eight miles below the 
Mulkingum, which it refembles, but is inferior in fize. 
It rifes near a branch of the Sciota, and taking a fouth- 
weft courfe enters the Ohio at Bellpree, in lat. 38. 57. N» 
It is navigable for large flat-bottomed boats between fe- 
ventv and eighty miles; Iras fine meadows with high banks 1 . 
Which are feldom overflowed, and rich uplands on its bdr- 
ders. On the banks of this firie river are inexnauftible 
quarries of free-ftone, large beds of iron-ore; rich mines 
of lead, and coal-pits. There are alfo productive fialt- 
fprings, beds of white and blue clay of an excellent qua¬ 
lity; red bole, and many other ufeful fofills, have alfo 
been found on the banks of this river. 
To HOCK'LE, v.a. [from hockf To lramftring; to cut 
the finews about the ham or hough. To mow flubbie. 
HOCK'LIFFE, a iinall town in Bedfordlhire, and a 
great thoroughfare from London to Liverpool, which here 
divides like the letter Y. That on the left is called the 
Chefter road; and that on the right, called the North 
road, leads to Wooburn, Newport Pagnel, Northamp¬ 
ton, &c. 
HOCKQUAR', or Hockquart, an ifland of Upper 
Canada, on the eaft fide of Lake Superior. 
HO'CUS PO'CUS, / [Junius derives it from hocccd, 
Wellh, a cheat, and poke, or pocus, a bag, the conftant in- 
ftrument of a juggler. Tillotlbn thinks it was ufed to 
ridicule the words Hoc eft corpus, This is the body, ufed 
by the Romilh priefts at the lacrament, by which they 
pretend that tranfubfbmtiation is effeCled.] A juggle, or 
cheat.—This gift of hocvs-pocu/Jing, and of difguifing mat¬ 
ters, is furprifing. L'Ef range .—A juggler, a man who per¬ 
forms Height of hand: 
As Hocus Pocus conjures to amufe 
The rabble from obferving what he does. Butler's Remains. 
HOD,/ [corrupted perhaps from hood, a hod being- 
carried on the head.] A kind of trough - in which a la¬ 
bourer carries mortar to the mafons: 
A fork and a hook to be tampering in clay, 
A lath, hammer, trowel, a hod or a tray. Tujfcr 
HOD, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HODAl'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HO'DAL, a fea-port of Sweden, in the province of 
Weft Gothland, on the coaft of the North Sea : forty-five 
miles north-north-weft of Uddevalla. 
HO'DAM, a town of Scotland, in the county of Dum¬ 
fries : ten miles eaft of Dumfries. 
HODANI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HO'DASH, [Hebrew.] A woman’s name. 
HOD'DER, a river of England, in the county of York, 
which runs into the Ribble fix miles north from Black¬ 
burn, in Lancalhire. 
HOD'DESDON, a handfome town in Hertfordftiire, 
fituated on the river Lea; and is a great thoroughfare on 
the northern road. It is feventeen miles from London, four 
from Hertford, and three from Ware. The market is pn 
Wednefdays; fair, June 29. Queen Elizabeth direfted a 
grammar-fichobl to -be ereCted here, and incorporated it 
with many privileges. An almlhoufe was alfo founded 
here in the reign of Henry VI. which is a ufeful charity. 
HOD'DY, adj. Well-difpofed, pleafant, in good hu¬ 
mour. Scotch. 
HODEI'DA, a lea-port town of Arabia, on the Red 
Sea, with a harbour only fit for fmall veflels: ninety-fix 
miles fouth-weft of Sana. Lat. 14. 39. N. Ion. 42. 40. E 
Greenwich 
HODE'VX, ' [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HODGE-PODGE, / [ hache, poche, hochepot, quafi hachis 
en fat, Fr.J A medley of ingredients boiled together.— 
It produces excellent corn, whereof the Turks make the 
trachana. 
