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brother’s interceffion, he was arraigned of'high t re a foil, 
and condemned. Bacon. —Reputably; with exemption from 
reproach: 
’Tis juft, ye gods! and what I well deferve : 
Why did I not more honourably ftarve! Dryclcn. 
HON'OURER, f. One that honours; one that regards 
with veneration.—I mull not omit Mr. Gay, whole zeal in 
your concern is worthy a friend and honourer. Pope. 
HON'OURS, J'. plu. Dignities, offices, privileges ; court- 
cards at whift. 
HONRU'BIA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : ten 
miles north-weft of Alarcon. 
HONS'BROUCK, a town of the duchy of Limburg : 
five miles north of Fauquemont. 
HON'TAN (La, baron), a native of Gafcony, who 
ferved firft in Canada, and was afterwards lent to New¬ 
foundland as the French king’s lieutenant. He quarrelled 
with the governor, and then retired, firft to Portugal, and 
afterwards to Denmark. He is knowh as the author of 
Voyages dans /’Amerique Septentrionale, z vols. 121110. Amjl. 
■1705 ; in which he gives an account of the different tribes 
inhabiting North America, their government, laws, cuf- 
torns, religion, commerce, See. 
HON'THORST (Gerard), an eminent painter, born in 
1592 at Utrecht. He received his firft inftruftions under 
Bloemart, but finiihed his ltudies at Rome, where he re¬ 
mained leveral years, and performed various works. He 
■particularly excelled in night-pieces and candle-lights, 
which were greatly admired by Rubens. On the invita¬ 
tion of Charles I. he came to England, and painted for 
the king feveral pieces, chiefiy of the allegorical kind. 
He alfo made portraits of various perfons about the court. 
After his return to Holland he was much employed by 
•the prince of Orange, whofe palaces he decorated with hit-' 
tory-pieces. He died at the Hague in 1660. This pain¬ 
ter held a free and forcible pencil, and gave life and ex- 
preffion to his figures, though they were deficient ia grace 
and correftnefs. His belt night-pieces are at Rome, in 
the Juftinian gallery, and in l'ome of the churches. 
HON'THY, a river of Wales, which runs into the Ulk 
near Brecknock. 
HONTIVE'ROS (Bernard), a learned Spanilh Benedic¬ 
tine monk. By his learning and merits he railed himfelf 
to the firft polls of honour and confidence in his order, 
* and to eminent dignities in the church. He was made 
profeffor of theology in the univerfity of Oviedo, and had 
among other* difciples the celebrated Jofeph d’Aguirre, 
afterwards cardinal; and was alfo appointed confelfor to 
his Catholic majefty. He died in 1662, celebrated as the 
author of a work which is held in much eftimation by the 
Catholic world, entitled, Lacfymce militantis Ecclefa, See. 
HONTO'RIA DE VALDECARA'DOS, a town of 
Spain, in Old Caftile: twenty-two miles weft of Olma. 
HOO-TCHOCF, a town of China, in the province of 
• Kyang-fee, feated on the eaftern bank of the junction of 
the river Kyang with the lake Po-yang. 
HOOD, in compofition, is derived from the Saxon hab, 
in German belt, in Dutch held. It denotes quality ; charac¬ 
ter ; condition; as, knighthood ; childhood ; fatherhood. Some¬ 
times it is written after the Dutch, as maidenhead. Some¬ 
times it is taken collectively : as, brotherhood, a confrater¬ 
nity ; fjlerhood, a company of filters. 
HOOD, f. [hob, Sax. probably from hepob, head.] 
The upper covering of a woman’s head : 
In velvet, white as fnow, the troop was gown’d; 
Their hoods and lleeves the fame. Dryden. 
Any thing drawn upon the head, and wrapping round it. 
He undertook fo to-.muffle himfelf up in his hood, that 
none Ihould difeern him. Wutton .—In falconry, a cover¬ 
ing put over the hawk’s eyes, when he is not to fly. A_n 
ornamental fold that hangs down the back of a graduate, 
to mark his degree. 
Vol. X. No, 659. 
To HOOD, v. a. To drefs in a hood : 
The cobler apron’d, and the parfon gown'd, 
The friar hooded, and the monarch crown’d. Pope. 
To blind as with a hood : 
While grace is faying, I’ll hood mine eyes 
Thus with my hat, and figh, and fay Amen. Sliakfpcare. 
To cover: 
An hollow cryftal pyramid he takes, 
In firmamental waters dipt above ; 
Of it a broad extinguilher he makes, 
And hoods the flames that to their quarry ftrove. Dryden. 
To HOOD'-WINK, v. a. To blind with fomething 
bound over the eyes.—Prejudice fo de^teroufiy hood-winks 
men’s minds as to keep them in the dark, with a belie/ 
that they are more in the light. Locke. 
On high, where no hoarfe winds or clouds refort. 
The hood-vnnk'd goddefs keeps her partial court. Garth. 
To cower ; to hide : 
Be patient; for the prize I’ll bring thee to 
Shall hood-wink this mifchance. Shahefpcarc. 
To deceive; to impofe.upon.—While ..kood-wink'd with 
■kindnefs, he leaft of aii men knew wdio ftruck him. 
Sidney. 
HOOD'-WINKING, f The aft of partially.blinding. 
HOOD’s ISLAND, an illand in the South Pacific Ocean, 
and the molt northerly of thole, called The Marquis of Men¬ 
doza's IJlands , difeovered by captain Cook in 1774; about 
fixteen leagues in circumference. Lat. 9.26.S. Ion. 138. 
52. W. Greenwich. . 
IiOOD'ED MIL'FOIL. See Utricularia. 
HOODING,/ The'aft of putting on a hood. 
HOOF, f. [hop, Sax. hoef Dut.] The hard horny fub- 
ftance, on'the feet of graminivorous animals.—With the 
hoofs of his horfes Ihali he tread down all thy ltreets. 
Ezek . xxvi. it. 
HOOF'-BOUND, adj. Having a contrafted hoof; a 
fault very common in horfes ; to remedy which, fee the ar¬ 
ticle Farriery, vol.vii. p.260. 
HOOF'ED, adj. [from hoof. ] Furniffied with hoofs.—• 
Among quadrupeds, the roe-deer is the fwifteft; of all 
the hoofed, the horfe is the moll beautiful; of all the 
clawed, the lion is the ftrongeft. Grew. 
HOOFT (Peter Cornelius van), an eminent Dutch 
writer, born at Amfterdam in 1581. He attached him¬ 
felf to writing in his native language, and obtained the 
higheft reputation both in poetry and hiftory. His hiftory 
of the Low-countries, commencing with the resignation 
of Charles V. and going down to 1588, was much valued 
for the accuracy of its political and military ftateftiefits. 
It was firft printed at Amfterdan in 1642, and has been 
leveral times reprinted. He wrote in Latin the hiftory of 
Henry IV. of France, and a relation of the deftinies of the 
houfe of Medicis. His epiltles, comedies, and poems, 
have been pubiiflied in four volumes. Hooft was lord of 
Muyden, judge of Goyland, and received the order of St. 
Michael from Louis XIII. He died at the Hague in 1647. 
HOO'GE-WALUWE, a town of Holland: five miles 
weft of Gertrudenburg. * 
HOCFGEVEEN (Henry), an able philologift, born of 
parents in humble life at Leyden, in 1712. He was lent 
to fchool at ten years of age ; and in his twentieth year he 
obtained the place of under-mafter of the fchool of Gor- 
cum. In 1733, he was appointed mafter of the fchool of 
Woerden ; and he afterwards followed the occupation of 
a fchool-mafter at Culemburg, Breda, Dort, and Delft, at 
which laft city he died in 1794. His works are, Vigerus 
de Idiot ifnis Lingua .Grate a, Leyd. 1743, leveral times re¬ 
printed ; his additions and improvements of the original 1 
work are highly valuable: l’ome poems, orations, and other 
occiffional pieces: Doclrina particularum Lingiue Greece, 
