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eaft from Exeter, fourteen fouth-weft from Launcefton, 
and Sixteen north from Torrington. It has a market on 
Saturdays. The fairs are, on the ad of April; 9th, 10th, 
11 til, of July, which is a very large fair; the 2d of Octo¬ 
ber; and the firft Wednel’da'y in November. A navigable 
canal from the harbour of Bude, pa fling through this town 
to diiferent parts of the county, and uniting with other 
branches, hath lately added to the trade and opulence of 
the place. 
HOLE,/ [ hoi , Dut. hole, Sax.] A cavity narrow and 
long, either perpendicular or horizontal.-—The earth had 
not a hole tp hide this deed. Shakefpeare. —A perforation ; 
a fmall inteffticial vacuity.—Look upon linen that has 
imall holes in it: til ore holes appear black: men are often 
deceived in taking holes for fpots of ink; and painters, to 
reprefent holes, make ufe of black. Boyle. —A cave ; a hol¬ 
low place: 
Upon his bloody finger he doth wear 
A precious ring that lightens all the hole. Shakefpeare. 
A cell of an animal.—A tortoife fpends all his-days in a 
hole with a lioufe upon his head. VEJlrange. —A mean 
habitation. Hole is generally ufed, unlefs in fpeaking of 
manual works, with fome degree of dillike: 
When Alexander firft beheld the face 
Of the great cynic, thus he did lament: 
How much more happy thou, that art content 
To live within this little hole, than 1 
Who after empire, that vain quarry, tly. Dry din. 
Some fubterfuge or fiiift.—To this fenfe may be referred 
the proverbial expreflion of finding a hole to creep out 
at. Mafon’s Supplement. 
Arm-Hole. The cavity under the fhoulder.—Tickling 
is molt in the foies, and under the arm-holes and fides. Bacon. 
HOLE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Agger- 
hups: fifteen miles north-weft of Chriftianin. 
HOLE TOWN, a town of the ifland of Barbadoes, 
fituated on the weft coaft. Lat. 13.12. N. Ion. 58. 31. W. 
Greenwich. 
HOLE GASS, a place in Swilferland, where William 
Tell (hot the Auftrian governor who by his tyranny gave 
birth to the republic. In memory of this event a chapel 
is built on the l’pot, near Kufnack. 
‘HO'LEN, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Agger- 
huus: eighteen miles from Tonfberg. 
HO'LENECK, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria: ten miles fouth of Voitfberg. 
HO'LENPURG, or Hollkneurg, a town of Germany, 
in Auftria, on the Danube: five miles fouth-eaft of 
Mauttern. 
HO'LENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in Bavaria, and 
lordfhip of Breiteneck : five miles north-weft of Dietfurt. 
HOLERACE'FE,/ [from holvs, Lat. pot-herbs .3 The 
'name of the twelfth order in Linnteus’s Natural Orders; 
and the fifty-third in his Fragments of a Natural Method ; 
confuting of plants which are ufed for the table, and 
enter into the economy of domeftic life. 
HO'LESCHAU, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Prerau : eight miles fouth-fouth-eait of Prerau, and twenty 
1 ‘outh-eaft of Olnrutz. 
HOL'GATE, a river of England, which runs into the 
Swale, three miles weft-fouth-weft of Richmond, in the 
county of York. 
HOL'GLEITEN, a town of Germany, in the Tyrol: 
twenty miles weft of Infpruck. 
HOL'IBUT,/ in ichthyology. See Pleuronectes. 
- HO'LIDAM, f. \_ho!y dome.'] Blefled lady. Hanmer .— 
By my holidam here comes Catharine. Shahejpeare. 
HOL'IDAY,/ The day of fome eccleliaftical feftival; 
anniverfary feaft: 
Rome’s holidays you tell, as if a gueft 
With the old Romans you were wont to feaft. Waller. 
A day of gaiety and joy: 
When my approach' has made a little holiday, 
And ev’ry face was drefs’d in fmiles to meet me. Rowe. 
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A time that conies feldom. In this fenfe it' is always, 
an adjeftive.—Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, 
to be feldom exerciled. Dryden. —A day of reft from ordi¬ 
nary occupation.—Suppofe you had a mind to perfuade 
Mr. Maittaire to give you a holiday, would, you bluntly 
fay to him, Give me a holiday. Chejlerjield. —For the holi- 
days now called Red-Letter Days, lee ftat. 5 and 6 Edw. VI. 
c. 3. The 5th of November to be kept as a day of thankf- 
giving, 3 Jac. I. c. 1. The 29th pf.May.to be an anniverfary 
thanksgiving; 12 Car. II. c. 14.. The 3.0 th of'January to.be 
kept as an anniverfary d^y of humiliation, x 2 Car. II. c. :3o. 
The 2d of September to be annually kept as a fait in 
London, 19 Car. II. c. 3. 
HOL'IDAY (Dr. Barten), a learned divine and poet, 
born at Oxford about the year 1.593. He ftudied at 
Chriit-church college, and in. 1615 took orders. He had 
two benefices conferred on him in the diocefe of Oxford. 
In 1618 he went as chaplain to fir Francis Stewart, when 
he accompanied count Gondamore to Spain. Afterwards 
he became chaplain.to the king, and before the year 162-6 
was promoted to the archdeaconry of Oxford, where he 
died in 1661. His works, are, 1. Twenty Sermons, pub- 
liihed at different times. 2, Pkilofopfud. pflilo-barbara: 
Specimen, 4to. 3. Survey of the World, a poem in ten 
books, 8vo. 4. A Tranilation of the .Satires of Juvenal 
and Perfius. 5. Teclmogamia, or the Marriage of the 
Arts, a comedy. 
HO'LILY, adv. Pioufly; with fanclity: 
Thou would’ft be great; 
Art not without ambition, but without 
The illnels fhould attend it: what thou would’ft highly. 
That would’ft thou holily. Shakefpeare. 
Inviolably; without breach.—Friend (hip, a rare thing, in 
princes, more rare between princes, that fo holily was ob- 
ferved to the lalt of tliofe excellent men. Sidney. 
HOLINESS,/ Sanftity; piety; religious goodnefs.— 
Religion is rent by difeords,, and the holinefs of the pro- 
feflors is decayed, and full of fcandal. Bacon. 
Then in full age, and hoary holinefs, 
Retire great teacher, to thy promis’d blifs. Prior. 
The ftate of being hallowed; dedication to religion; the 
title of the pope: 
I here appeal unto the pope. 
To bring my whole caule ’fore his holinefs. Shakefpeare. 
HOL'INGSHED (Ralph), the celebrated Britifh chro¬ 
nicler, defeended from a refpeftable family at Bofely 
in Chefhire, and is laid by bifliop Tanner to have been 
brought up at Cambridge, and to have taken the degree 
of M. A. in 1544. He lived in fome confidential capacity 
with Thomas Burdett, el'q. of Bramcote in Warwickfhire, 
in which place he died about 1580. He has given name 
to a compilation of chronicles of Englifh hiftory from 
the eariieft times, of which the firft edition was p’ublifhed 
at London in 1577, two volumes folio. The fecond 
edition, of three volumes, was publilhed in 1587, and 
brought down to the preceding year. John Stowe was 
concerned in the continuation of this work, after Ho- 
linglhed’s death. Very confiderablc retrenchments from 
the firft edition were made in the fecond and third, of 
parts difpleafihg to queen Elizabeth and her minifters, 
by order of the privy-council; a proof how little hiftorical 
truth can be expefted under an arbitrary government. 
This circumftance has made the firft edition rare and 
valuable; but the fuppreffed iheets have fince been re¬ 
printed feparately. 
HO'LITZ, a town of Hungary : thirty-two miles weft- 
north-weft of Topoltzen. 
HO'LITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Chru- 
dim -. ten miles riorth-eaft of Chrudim. 
HOL'KABERG, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Fail Gothland : thirty-five miles fouth-weft of Linkoping^. 
HOLL (Francis-Xavier), a learned German Jefuit, born 
at Schwandorf in 1720. He appears to have devoted 
kimfelf wholly to the ftudy of the ecclefiaftical law of 
3 N Germany, 
