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1597; and he alfo finiflied there the fixth, feven'tli, and 
eighth, books, which he did not live to publifh. In the 
year 1600, Mr. Hooker, in confequence of a violent cold, 
was affefted by a long fevere illnefs, which in the end 
proved fatal to him. He died in November 1600, when 
only in the forty-feventh year of his age. His treatife on 
Eeclefiaftical Polity, procured him a very great and ex- 
tenfive reputation, both at home and abroad. 
HOOK'ING, f. The aft of catching with a hook. 
HOOK'LAND,/ Land ploughed and fown every year. 
Scott. 
HOOK'NOSED, ad]. Having the aquiline nofe riling 
in the middle.—I may jullly fay, with the hooknoftd fellow 
of Rome there, Ccefar, 1 came, faw r , and overcame. 
ShqkeJ'pearc. 
HOOK'SET FALLS, ftupendous falls on Merrimack 
.river, in North America, juft below the mouth of Sun- 
cook, feven miles above Amulkeag Fails, and eight miles 
below Concord, in New Harnpfhire. 
, HOOKS'TOWN, a town of the American States, on 
the weft fde of Chefapeak Bay, in Maryland, in Balti¬ 
more county, fix'miles north-weft of the town of Balti¬ 
more. 
HOOKS'TOWN, a town of the American States, on 
the ealt fide of Chefapeak Bay, in Talbot county, Mary¬ 
land, lies north of Eafton, and ibuth-weftof Williamfourg, 
nearly three miles from each. 
HOOPLA, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Agger- 
huus : thirty-two miles north-weft of Chriltianiq. 
HOOLAFVA, one of the Friendly Illands, among thofe 
called the iflands of Hapaee : thirty miles north-eaft from 
Annamooka. 
HOOLEADROO'G, or Oliadur'gam, a fortrefs of 
Hindooftan, in the Myfore country, taken by the Britilh 
troops on the 23d of June, 1791 : twenty-four-miles weft- 
-fouth-weft of Bangaio;;e, and twenty-two north-north- 
eaft of Seringapatam. 
HOO'LY ONO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the My¬ 
fore country, fituated at the conflux of the Turn and the 
Budra, where their united ftreams form the Tumbudra. 
On the 19th of December, 1791, this town was taken by 
the Britilh troops: twenty-Jix miles weft of Periapatam, 
and fifty-fix north-weft of Seringapatam. 
HOON'GA-HAPAEE', a Imall ifland among the 
Friendly Iflands, in the South Pacific Ocean: ten leagues 
north of Tongataboo. 
HOON'GA-TON'GA, one of the fmaller Friendly 
Iflands : nine leagues north of Tongataboo. 
HOOP, f. \_hoep, Dut.] Any. thing circular by which 
fomething elfe is bound, p;*ticularly calks or barrels : 
Thou fnalt prove a (helter to thy friends, 
A hoop of gold to bhid thy brothers in. 
That the unit'ed'veffel of their blood 
Shall never leak. Shakcfpeare. 
The whalebone with which women extend their petti¬ 
coats; a farthingale.—All that hoops are good for is to 
c'ean dirty Ihoes, and to keep fellows at a diltance. ClanJJa. 
At coming in you faw her ftoop : 
The entry brulh’d againft her hoop. Swift. 
Any thing circular.—I have feen at Rome an antique fta- 
tue of Time, with a wheel or hopp of marble in his hand. 
Addifon. 
To HOOP, v.a To bind or enclofe with hoops.—The 
thr te-hoop'd pot Hi all have ten hoops, and I will make it 
felony to drink fmall beer. ' Sha/iejpeare .—To encircle; to 
clafp ; to furround : 
I hoop the firmament, and make 
This my embrace the zodiac. Cleaveland. 
To HOOP, v. n. f from wopgan, or wopyan, Gothic ; or 
houpper , French, derived from the Gothic, This word is 
generally written, whoop, which is proper if we deduce it 
from the Gothic; and hoop, if we derive it from the 
H O O 
French.] To firout; to make an outcry by way of call ©r 
purfuit. 
To HOOP, v.a. To drive with a fliout: 
Daftard nobles 
Suffer’d me, by the voice of flaves, to be 
Hoop'd out of Rome. Shakefpeare. 
To call by a fliout. 
HOOP, a town of Norway, in the government of Wurd- 
huys : feyenty-fix miles weft of Wardhuys. 
HOOP'ER, f. [from hoop, to inclofe with hoops.] A 
cooper ; one that hoops tubs. 
HOO'PER (George), a learned Englifli prelate, born at 
Grimley, in Worcefterihire, in 164.0. He was educated 
-in claflical learning at Weftminfter fchool, whence he was 
elefted a ftudent of Chriftchurcli college, Oxford, in 
1656. He diftinguiflied himlelf at college by his profici¬ 
ency in philofophy, the mathematics, Greek and Roman 
antiquities, and the Oriental languages; particularly the 
.Arabic, of which he made conflderable ufe in explaining 
.feveral obfcure paffages of the Old Teftament. In 1672, 
he was appointed chaplain to Dr. Morley, bifliop of Win- 
chefter, who loon afterwards prefented him to the rectory 
of Havant, which he exchanged for that of Woodhay, in 
Harnpfhire. In the following year he took the degree of 
B. D. He had now acquired lo refpectable a character for 
learning, prudence, and engaging manners, that archbi- 
Ihop Sheldon prevailed upon Dr. Morley to permit him to 
remove to Lambeth, to become chaplain to that prelate, 
who in 1675 collated him to the rectory of that place, and 
not long afterwards to the precentorftiip of Exeter. In 
1677 he proceeded D. D. and in the fame year was fent 
into Holland, to attend the princefs of Orange as her al¬ 
moner. After his return, he was appointed chaplain to 
king Charles II. In 1691, during the abfence of Wil¬ 
liam III. in Holland, his confort queen Mary, without 
any application on his part, promoted Dr. Hooper to the 
deanery of Canterbury, and at the fame time gave him 
permiflion to hold both the livings which he polfeffed. 
On this occafion, however, he thought it his duty to re- 
fign his rectory of Woodhay. In 1701, he was choleri 
prolocutor to the lower lroufe of convocation; and was 
alfo offered the primacy of Ireland, by the earl of Ro- 
chefter, then lord-lieutenant. 
In 1702, by the queen’s exprefs command. Dr.Hooper 
was made bifliop of St. Alaph ; in which fee he continued 
about half a year, and generoully refufed the ufual mor¬ 
tuaries paid by the Welfh clergy to their new biihops, fay¬ 
ing, that they Ihould never pay fo dear for the fight of 
him. During the following year, he was tranflated to the 
fee of Bath and Wells. By his humane, wife, and cour¬ 
teous, conduft, in his new fituation, he gained the entire 
affedtions of the gentry and clergy of his diocefe ; and, in 
return, no offers could induce him to think of a tranfla- 
tion from them. For he could not be perfuadgd to accept 
of the bifhopric of London, on the death of bifliop Comp¬ 
ton ; nor of the archbifnopric of York, on the death of 
archbifliop Sharp. After prefiding over his fee twenty- 
four years and fix months, bifliop Hooper died at Berkley, 
in Somerfetihire, in 1727, at the advanced age of eighty- 
feven. He was the author of a learned and laborious 
Difcourfe concerning Lent, in two Parts; the firft an hif- 
torical Account of its Obfervation ; the fecond, an Eflay 
concerning its Original, 1694, intended to fliow that molt 
of our Cliriftian ordinances, and the obfervance of Lent, 
are derived from the Jews. a. A Calculation of the Cre¬ 
dibility of human Teftimony, publiflied in the Fuilofo- 
phical Tranfaftions for October 1799. 3. De Valcntini- 
arum Harefi Corrje&ur*, quibus illius Origo ex /Egypiiac'd The- 
o/ogia deducitur, 1711, 4to. 4. An Enquiry into the State 
of ancient Meafures, the Attic, the Roman, and efpecially 
the Jewifh: with an Appendix concerning our old Englifli 
Money, and Meafures of Content, 1721, 8vo. 5. De Pa¬ 
triarcha Jacobi Benediblione, Gen. XLIX. Conje6lv.ru:, pub- 
lilhed by the reverend Mr. Hunt, of BarthuiJ, Oxford, with 
a preface 
