HOP 
She was his care, his hope, and his delight, 
Molt in his thought, and ever in his fight. Dryden. 
HOPE, f Any Hoping plain between the ridges of 
mountains. Ainfzoorth. 
To HOPE, v.n. To live in expectation.— Hope for good 
fuccefs, according to the efficacy of the caufes and the in- 
ftrument; and let the hulbandman hope for a good liar- 
veil. Taylor. 
Who knows what adverfe fortune may befall! 
Arm well your mind; hope little, and fear all. Dryden. 
To place confidence in another.—He fliall llrengthen your 
heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. Pfal. xxxi. 24. 
To HOPE, v. a. To expert with defire : 
The fun lliines hot; and, if we ufe. delay, 
Cold biting winter mars our hop'd-for hay. Shakefpeare. 
So Hands the Thracian lierdfman with his fpear 
Full in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear. Dryden. 
HOPE, a river of the illand of Jamaica, which runs 
into the lea five miles fouth of Kinglton. 
HOPE, - a town of the American States, in Suflex 
county, New Jerfey, on the poll-road from Newtown to 
Eafton in Penfylvania, fixteen miles fouth-welt of the 
former, and twenty north-eaft of the latter. It is princi¬ 
pally inhabited by the Moravian United Brethren. 
HOPE, a bay on the north-well coall of North Ame¬ 
rica, fo named by captain Cook. The entrance of Nootka, 
or St. George's Sound, is fituated in the eall corner of Hope 
Bay, in lat. 49. 33. N. Ion. 233. * a. E. 
HOPE, a Moravian lettlen nt in Wachovia, in north 
Carolina, in Surrey county, where is a meeting-houfe of 
the United Brethren. 
HOPE, a fmall illand of the American States, in Nar- 
raganfet Bay, Rhode Illand. 
HOPE BAY, a bay in the Englilh Channel, on the 
coall of Kent, between Sandwich and Ramfgate. 
HOPE’ ISLANDS, two fmall illands on the north-eall 
coall of New Holland. Lat. 15. 41. S. 
HOPE'A, /. [fo named by Dr. Garden in honour of 
Dr. Hope , profeffor of botany at Edinburgh.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs polyadelphia, order polyandria, (mo- 
nadelphia, VMerit,) and in the natural order of guaiacanse, 
jfujf. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-leafed, bell-lhaped, five-cleft; clefts ovate, blunt, 
permanent. Corolla: petals five, oblong, concave, con- 
nerted at the bafe by the intervention of the bunches of 
the ilamens. Stamina: filaments very many, briltle- 
fliaped, longer than the corolla, connerted at the bafe in 
five bodies; antheratquadrangular. Piltillum : germ in¬ 
ferior roundilh ; ftyle gradually thickening, the length 
of the corolla, permanent; lligma thickilh, obliquely de- 
preffed. Pericarpium : drupe dry, oval-cylindric, gib¬ 
bous, crowned with the calyx. Seed : nut iinooth, three- 
celled, protrarted by a blunt tip.— Effcntial Character. Ca¬ 
lyx five-cleft, fuperior; corolla five-petalled ; llamina 
many, connerted in five bodies; ftyle one; drupe with a 
three-celled' nut. 
Hopea tinrtoria: a fingle fpecies. It is a tree, with 
alternate, petioled, fimple, oblong, lanceolate-ovate, fub- 
ferrate filming, nervelefs, fweet leaves. The peduncles 
bur'll forth from buds upon the topmoft branchlets, eight 
or ten together, before the leaves, and are difpofed in a 
very Ihort fpike, on very fiiort one-flowered pedicels, 
clothed with imall concave villofe leaflets. The flow r ers 
are fucceeded by fubfeflile fruits, below the leaves, in a 
very Ihort fpike. It flowers early in the fpring, and is 
then extremely ftvect. The juice or a decortion of the 
leaves will dye linen and filk of a bright yellow colour. 
Native of Carolina. 
HO PEFUL, adj. Full of qualities-which produce hope; 
promifing: likely to obtain fuccefs; likely to come to 
maturity ; likely to gratify defire, or anfwer expectation ; 
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What to the old can greater pleafure be, 
Than hopeful and ingenious youth to fee ? Denham. 
Full of hope; full of expectation of fuccefs.—I was hope* 
ful the fuccefs of your firft attempts would encourage you 
to make trial alfo of more nice and difficult experiments. 
Boyle. 
Whatever ills the friendlefs orphan bears, 
Bereav’d of parents in his infant years, 
Still muff the wrong’d Telemachus fultain. 
If, hopeful of your aid, he hopes in vain. Pope, 
HO'PEFULLY, adv. [from hopeful .] In fuch manner 
as to raife hope; in a promifing way.— He left all his fe¬ 
male kindred either matched with peers of the realm ac¬ 
tually, or hopefully with earls’ fons and heirs. IVotton .—. 
With hope; without defpair.—From your promifing and 
generous endeavours vve may hopefully expert a conlider- 
able enlargement of the hiftory of nature. Glanville. 
HO'PEFUL-NESS, f. [from hopeful.) Promife of good ; 
likelihood to fucceed.—Set down beforehand certain fig- 
natures of hopefulnef, or chararters whereby may be time¬ 
ly deferibed what the child will prove in probability. 
Wot ton. 
KO'PELESS, adj. [from hope.) Without hope ; with- 
out pleaflng expectation ; defpairing.—Alas ! I am a wo¬ 
man, friendiefs , hopelefs l Shakefpeare. 
Hopelefs of ranfom, and condemn’d to lie 
In durance, doom’d a ling’ring death to die. Dryden. 
Giving no hope; promifing nothing pleaflng: 
The hopelefs word of Never to return, 
Breathe I againll thee upon pain of life. Shakefpeare. 
HOTELESSLY, adv. [from hopelefs .] Without hope. 
Is your laft hope palbto mollify Morecraft’s heart about 
your mortgage ? Hopelt/sly pall. Beaumont and Fletcher. 
HO'PER, f. [from hope.) One that has pleating expec¬ 
tations.-—I except all hopers, who turn the feale, becauih 
the ftronger expectation of a good certain fidary will out¬ 
weigh the lofis by bad rents. Swift. 
KO'PEWELL, a townthip of the American States, in 
Cumberland county, in the province of New Brunfwick, 
fituated on Chepodie river, which runs eafterly. into a 
northern arm of the Bay of Fundy, and is navigable five- 
miles. 
HO'PEWELL, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Huntingdon county, New Jerfey, fituated on Deiawar: 
river, fourteen miles welt of Prince-town, eleven above 
Trenton, and thirty fiouth-wefterly of New Brunfwick. 
Another townfliip of this name lies in Cumberland cour. 
'ty, New Jerfey. 
HO'PEWELL, the name of three townlhips of the- 
American States, in Pennfylvania, viz. in York, Hunt¬ 
ingdon, and Walhington, counties. 
HO'PEWELL HEAD, a cape in Kudfon’s Bay. Lat. 
58. 10. N. Ion. 78. W. Greenwich. 
HOP'FENBACH, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carniola: five miles north of Rudolfswerth. 
HOPF'GARTEN, a town of Germany, in Bavaria, 
and archbifhopric of Saltzburg : thirty-eight miles fouth- 
well of Saltzburg, and fix north-eall of Rathburg. 
HOPH'NI,y. [Heb. one that covereth.] A man’s name, 
HO-PING', a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong: thirty-feven miles eall-north- 
eall of Lien-ping. 
HO'PINGLY, adv. [from hoping.) With hope; with 
expectation of good. 
HOPITAL' (L’), a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhone and Loire, feventeen miles fouth of Roanne. 
HOP'KINS (Ezekiel), an Englifh prelate of the church, 
of Ireland, born at Sandford, in Devonfiiire, in 163.3. In 
1649, he was fent to Magdalen college, in the univerfity 
of Oxford ; and after he had taken his degree of B. A. in 
1653, was appointed ulher of the adjoining fichooi. . Hr. 
was 
