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r Ti'-'via dermeftoides: body teftaceous; eyes, wing#, 
;;-.r.d breafc, black. On the elytra are four railed ftripes, 
■the two hr ft of whieh run into one a little beyond the 
middle : on the whole they refemble thole of the Necy- 
dales. The antennae conlilt of Ihort joints, heart-lhaped, 
flat, and femi-peflinated: the broadeft are in the middle, 
the laft end in a point. It is the Lymexylon dermeftoides 
of Fabricius; inhabits England, and? indeed every part 
of Europe; and is correctly delineated on the Plate Hi- 
«UNDO, fig. 9. 
2. Horia teftacea: rufous; antennas and legs black; 
body cylindrical ; hind-thighs thick, and toothed. Inha¬ 
bits Tranquebar. 
HOR'JA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Weft 
Gothland: twenty miles north-north-weft of Johnkioping. 
HO'RIMS. See Horitks. 
HORINGEN, a town of Germany, on the Upper Rhine, 
and principality of Heffe Caffel: fix miles eaft of Fride- 
wald, and thir-ty-eight fouth-eaft of Caffel. 
HORIS'MUS,/ [Greek.] A defcription ; a rhetorical 
figure in which any thing is defcribed, or let off to the 
belt advantage. Phillips. 
HO'RITES, an ancient people, who at the beginning 
dwelt in the mountains of Seir beyond Jordan. Gen.x iv. 6. 
They had princes, and were powerful, even before Efau 
made a conquelt of their country. The Horites, the de- 
fcendants of Seir, and the Edomites, feem afterwards to 
have been confounded, and to have compofed but one 
people. Dent. ii. 2. xxxiii. 2. and Judg. v. 4. They dwelt 
in Arabia Petrsea, and Arabia Delerta, to the fouth-eaft of 
Canaan. We find the Hebrew word O'nn Chorim, which 
in the book of Genefis is tranflated Horites, to be ufed in 
an appellative fenfe in feveral other paffages of fcripture, 
and to fignify nobles, or great and powerful men. 1 Kings 
xxi. 8, 11. Neh. ii. 16. iv 14. v. 7. vi. 17. vii.5. xii. 17. 
Keel. x. 17. [fa. xxxiv. 12. Jer. xxvii. 20. xxxix. 6. And it 
is very probable that the Greeks derived from hence their 
■heroes, in like manner as they derived Anax, “ a king,” from 
the fons of Anak, the famous giant in Paleftine. 
HORPZON, f. [o§i£fu, Gr. to limit, or bound.] The 
line that terminates the view. The horizon is diftinguiffl- 
ed into fenfible and real: the fenfible horizon is the cir¬ 
cular line which limits the view ; the real is that which 
would bound it, if it could take in the hemifphere. - See 
the article Astronomy, vol. ii. p.325. and Geogra¬ 
phy, vol. viii. p. 348-355.—When the fea is w.ovked up 
in a tempeft, fo that the horizon on every fide is nothing 
but foaming billows and floating mountains, it is impof- 
fible to deferibe the agreeable horror that riles from 1'uch 
a profpeft. Addijon. 
The morning lark, the meffenger of the day, 
■Sal.uted in her fong the morning gray: 
And foon the fun arofe with beams fo bright, 
That all th’ horizon laugh’d to fee the joyous fight. Dryd. 
HORIZONTAL, adj [horizontal , Fr. from / 'mizon .] 
Near the horizon: 
As when the fun, new rifen, 
Looks through the horizontal mifty air, 
Shorn of his beams. Milton. 
Parallel to the horizon 5 on a level.—The problem is re¬ 
duced to this ; what perpendicular height is neceffary to 
place feveral ranks of rowers in a plane inclined to a ho¬ 
rizontal line in a given angle ? Arbutknot. 
Horizontal Moon. See the article Astronomy, 
vol. ii. p. 383. 
HORIZONTALLY, adv. [from horizontal .] In a di¬ 
rection parallel to the horizon.—-As it will not fink into 
the bottom, fo will it neither float above, like lighter bo¬ 
dies ; but, being near in weight, lie Tuperficially, or al- 
moft horizontally unto it. Brown. 
HOR'LA, a river of Poland, which runs into the Oder, 
eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Glogaw. 
HOR'LA, a river of Silefia, which rifes in the north 
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part of the principality of Oels, and runs into the Barfch 
near Hernftadt. 
HOR'LA, a town of Germany, in Upper Saxony, and 
county of Mansfeld: four miles fouth-weft of Wippra. 
HOR'LE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Dron- 
theim : forty-eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Romfdal. 
HORLO'FA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Skone : eleven miles eaft of Lund. 
HOR'MAH, or Ze'phath, a city of Paleftine, belong¬ 
ing to the tribe of Judah, fituated in the fouthern part of 
that province near the borders of Edom. It was after¬ 
wards afligned to the tribe of Simeon, as their inheritance 
was included within that of Judah, and previous to its 
conqueft was the feat of one of the Canaanitifli kings. 
Jofli. xii. 14. xv. 30. xix. 4. Judges, i. 17. 
HOR'MANS, a town of Germany, in Auftria: fix 
miles north-north-eaft of Weitra. 
HOR'MANSTORFF, a town of Germany, in Auftria-; 
four miles north of Korn Neuburg. 
HOR'MINUM,yi in botany. See Bartsia, Betonica, 
Melissa, Nepeta, and Salvia. 
HORMIS'DAS, a name which fome of the Perfian kings 
bore in the reign of the Roman emperors. See the arti¬ 
cle Persia. 
HOR'MONT, a town of Perfia, in the province of La- 
riftan: eleven leagues eaft-north-eaft of Lar. 
HOR'MUS, f. With the ancients, a kind of dance. 
Phillips. 
HORN, /] \_haurn, Gothic ; horjtn. Sax. horn, Dutch.] 
The hard bodies which grow on the heads of fome gra¬ 
minivorous quadrupeds, and ferve them for weapons.—No 
beaft that hath horns hath upper teeth Bacon 
Zetus rifes through the ground, 
Bending the bull’s tough neck with pain. 
That toffes back his horns in vain. Addifon. 
An inftrument of wind-mufic.—There’s apoft come with 
his horn full of good news. Shakefpeare. 
Fair Afcanius, and his youthful train, 
With horns and hounds a hunting-match ordain. Dryden. 
The extremity of the waxing or waining moon, as men¬ 
tioned by poets: 
She blefs’d the bed, fuch fruitfulnefs convey’d, 
That ere ten moons had fliarpen’d either horn , 
To crown their blifs, a lovely boy was born. Dryden. 
The feelers of a fnail. Whence the proverb. To draw in 
the horns , to reprefs One’s ardour: 
Love’s feeling is more foft and fenfible, 
Tliaji are the tender horns of cockled fnails. Shakefpeare- 
A drinking-cup made of horn. Antler of a cuckold : 
Merchants vent’ring through the main. 
Slight pirates, rocks, and horns, for gain. Hudibras. 
There is no term, which occurs fo often figuratively in 
the facred writers, as that of a horn. By this they denoted 
any thing fuper-eminent and powerful. The Ifraelites 
were forbidden to make any reprefentation in ftone or 
metal; fo that we have no inltance from them of its being 
ever reprefented to the eye. The fame was a fymbol among 
the Egyptians ; they copied it in ftone and brafs; and af¬ 
fixed the reprefentation of a horn to the ltatues of their 
kings and deities. But'though this was a common em¬ 
blem in thefe -two nations, it does not follow that one 
borrowed it from the other. It was a general type of 
early date, and in almolt univerfal acceptation in every 
nation of old, to whofe hiftory we can gain accefs; it was 
an emblem of affluence and power; whence cornucopia, the 
horn of plenty. 
Horn is an article of confiderable utility in the arts 
and manufactures. Bullocks horns, foftened by the fire, 
,ferve to make lanthorns, combs, knives, ink-horns, to¬ 
bacco-boxes, &c. and the horn being dyed or ftained of 
various 
