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things, are called homonymous, or ambiguous ; and when 
peri'ons ufe luch ambiguous words, with a delign to de¬ 
ceive, it is called equivocation. Watts. 
HOMON'YMY, f. [homonymie, Fr.op.oma, Gr.] Equi¬ 
vocation ; ambiguity.. 
HOMOPH'AGI,yi [ from homo, Lat. a man, and (pays), Gr 
to eat.] Men-eaters; thole who feed on human flefn. Scott. 
HOMOPLA'TA, J. [from Gr. the fhoulder, and 
wAala, the blade bone.] The iho'ulder-blade. 
HOM'OROD, a town of Traniilvania: fifteen miles 
north of Fogaras. 
HOMORYS'MA,/ [from o^o?, Gr. like.] A fimili- 
tude in figure, parts, and properties. 
HOMOT'ONOUS, adj. [from oporovos, Gr.] Equable; 
Paid of fuch diftempers as kfeep a conltant tenour of rife, 
ftate, and declenfion. Quincy. 
HOMOU'SIAN, adj. [from cy.oc, Gr. equal, and no-ia., 
fubftance.] Confubftantial, having the fame fubftance. 
Scott. , 
HOMOU'SIAN, f. In church hiftory, one who held 
that the Son was of the fame fubftance with the Father. 
HOMOU'SION,/ Conlubftantiality. Phillips. 
HOM'RAN, a town of Arabia, in tlie province of 
Yemen, between Sana and Beit-el-Fakih. 
HOMS, or Ems, a town of Syria formerly called Emejfa, 
and a celebrated city; bn the Orontes : fix miles north- 
north-eaft of Damafcus. 
HOMUN'CIONISTS, f. [from homitncio, a little man.] 
In church hiftory, the Arians, fo called becaufe they held 
that the image of God was imprelfed on the body, and 
not on the mind, of Chrift. Scott. 
HOMUN'CULUS, [dim. of honio, Lat. a'man.] A dwarf. 
HON-HOTOU', a lake of Chinefe Tartary,eight leagues 
in circumference. Lat. 48.29. N. Ion. no. 33. E. Ferro. 
HO'NA CHIT'TO, a river of North America, which 
rifes in Georgia, in lat. 32. N. between Pearl and Loofa 
Chitto rivers, runs foutherly 125 miles, and at the town 
of Manca in Weft Florida, a few miles from its mouth, 
runs weft to Mifliflippi river. Lat. 30.25.N. 
HO'NAIN (Ebn Ifaac), a Syrian writer and phyfician, 
of the Chriftian family of Obadites, lived in the reign of 
the caliph Almotawakkel, about the middle of the ninth 
century. The caliph appointed him his firft phyfician, 
and employed him in tranilating the works of the Greek 
phyficians into Arabic or Syriac. He corrected feme of 
the former Syriac verfions, epitomifed Paulus, and trans¬ 
lated, the works of Hippocrates and Galen. His Arabic 
verfions were much 1'uperior in accuracy to thole which 
liad been before attempted in the Eaftern languages, and 
ferved as originals to the Hebrew.tranflations. Honain 
retired to Bagdad towards the dole of his life, where he 
died, when one hundred years old. 
HONCKE'NYA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs oc- 
tandria, order monogynia, the charaders of which are—• 
Calyx five-leaved ; petals five; nedraries rel’embling the 
ftamina; capfule briftly, five-celled, five-valved, many- 
feeded; feeds coated. 
Honckenya ficifolia : a tingle fpecies. Stem covered 
with brown down ; leaves alternate, clothed with fulvous 
downt underneath ; upper-ones obtufe, toothed; lower- 
ones three or five lobed, toothed ; dowers terminal, three 
together. Native of Guinea. 
HOND, a town of Hungary : ten miles north-weft of 
Tokay, 
HON'DA BAY, a bay on the north coaft of the illand 
of Cuba -. feventy miles welt of Havannah. 
HON'DA BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the province 
of Honduras, northward of Cape Gracios-a-Dios. 
HON'DA RPO, a river of Yucatan, which empties 
into the bay of Ilondups. This river, by the peace of 
1783, was the northern boundary of the trad fouthwarcl 
of Balleffe river, ceded by the Spaniards to the Britifii, to 
cut and carry away logwood. 
HOND'EKOOTF.R (Melchior), a famous Dutch paint¬ 
er, born at" Utrecht; excelled in painting animals, and 
efpecialjy birds. He was trained up to the art by his fa¬ 
ther; but furpafled not only him, but all'his cotempora¬ 
ries in a very high degree. After his father’s death, he 
received inftrudions from his uncle John Baptift Wee- 
ninx; but his principal inftrudor was Nature, which he 
ftudied with intenfe application. His pencil was neat 
and delicate; his touch light; his colouring natural, 
lively, and tranfparent; and the features of his fowls were 
exprefied with fuch a l'welling loftnefs, as might readily 
arid agreeably deceive the eye of the fpedator; He died 
at Utrecht in 1695, aged fifty-nine. 
HON'DIUS (Jodocus), an engraver and geographer, 
born in 1563, at Wackene in Flanders, whence his pa¬ 
rents removed to Ghent. At eight years of age lie began 
to draw and engrave upon ivory and copper, without a 
rnafter; and fuch was his progrels, that he came to be 
regarded as ,one of the ableft workmen of his time. The 
prince of Parma, while engaged in the fiege of Antwerp, 
lent for him, and employed him in making fome bronze 
ftatues, with which he was fo well fatisfied, that he prelfed 
him to vifit Rome. Hondius, however, did not comply ; 
but, after the furrender of Ghent, came to England, 
where he applied himlelf to cofmography, and to various 
branches of art. He publilhed, 1. Tkeatrum Artis Scribendi, 
2. Orbis Terr arum Dcfcriptio Gcographica. 3. Ger'tardi Mer~ 
catoris Atlas. 4. Italia Hordierna Dcfcriptio ; and engraved 
maps for feveral works of the time. -He removed to Am- 
fterdam, where he died in 1611, at the age of forty-eight. 
HON'D [US (Abraham), a diftinguifiied painter, born at 
Rotterdam, in 1638. He painted in a variety of branches, 
but chiefly excelled in the reprefentation of animals, efpe- 
cialiy in hunting-pieces. He had a manner peculiar to 
• himlelf, bold and free, with abundance of 1 pi fit, but de¬ 
viating into extravagance of colouring, and fometimes 
incorrect in the drawing. He is, however, placed next 
to Rubens and Snyders as .a painter of animals. He alfo 
pofiefled a fuperior talent in painting conflagrations and 
artificial lights, and executed a capital piece of the burn¬ 
ing of Troy. Fie came to England, where he died in 
1695. One of 'his belt works performed here was a Dog- 
market, in which he gave charafteriftic figures of thirty 
fpecies or varieties of that animal. 
FION'DTSCHOOTE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the North, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dill:riff of Bergues : two leagues and a half fouth-eart of 
Dunkirk, and five north-weft of Ypres. On the 6th of 
September, 1793, a part of the army of the allies, under 
the command of general Freytag, was furpril’ed and to¬ 
tally routed by the French. The general himlelf, and 
prince Adolphus Frederic, fon of the king of England, 
were taken prifoners, but foon after refcued. 
HONDU'RAS, a province of New Spain, or Mexico, in 
North America/ having the bay of its name and the North 
Sea on the north; Yucatan on the north-weft; and the 
Mofquito Shore on the north-eaft; Nicaragua and Guati- 
mala on the fouth, and Vera Paz on the weft. It is about 
■one hundred leagues long and eighty broad. It abounds 
with honey, cotton, fine wool, dye-w'oods in particular, 
and has fome gold and filver mines. The rivers overflow 
like the Nile, and enrich the land. The air is good, ex¬ 
cept near the lagoons and low grounds. The foil in many 
parts bears Indian corn thrice a-year ; and the vineyards 
bear twice a-year; for immediately after the vintage they 
cut them again ; and the fecond grapes are ripe before 
Chriltmas. Among other vegetables, are large gourds, 
which the Indians call hibueras, and the fiflt dilcoverer 
feeing many of them floating along the coaft, called the 
bay Golfo de Hibueras, and the province itfelf Hibuera ; yet 
afterwards, finding very deep water at the great cape of 
this country,, they called it Cabo de Honduras, that’is, The 
Promontory of Depth, and the country itfelf Honduras. Val¬ 
ladolid is tlie chief town, where the governor and bifliop 
reride. Truxillo is alio a fine town, and very ftrong by 
nature; and Orn.oah is ftrongly fortified; as are alfo Gra- 
cias-a-Dios and St. Jago. The Spaniards claim this 
country j 
