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HOT 
ufed for the palaces of kings or princes; fuch as the ho¬ 
tel de Conde, hotel de Conti, hotel du Louvre, &c. In 
England it is ufed for a large inn, or a commodious lodg- 
ing-houfe ready furnilhed. 
HO'THAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HO'THAN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HO'THIR, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HOTH'NY, a river of Wales, which rifes in Breck- 
nockfhire, and runs into the Monnow in Monmouthfhire. 
HOT'LY, cidv. With heat; not coldly. Violently; ve¬ 
hemently.—The Hag was in the end fo hotly purfued, that 
he was driven to make courage of defpair. Sidney.. 
I do ccnteft 
As hotly and as nobly with thy love, 
As ever in ambitious ftrength I did 
Contend againft thy valour. Shakefpeare. 
The enemy, now at hand, began hotly to (kirmilh in divers 
places with the Chriftians. Knollcs. —Though this contro- 
verly be revived, and hotly agitated, I doubt whether it be 
not a nominal dilpute. Boyle. —Lultfully: 
Voracious birds, that hotly bill and breed, 
And largely drink, becaufe on fait they feed. Dry den. 
TIOT'MAN, or Hotoma'nus (Francis), a learned ju- 
rift, born at Paris in 1624. At the age of fifteen, he was 
fent to ftudy the law at Orleans, where his progrefs was 
fo rapid, that within three years he received his doflor’s 
degree. He very early made him (elf known by a little 
work, De Gradibus Cognat'wnis, and in 1547 he went to 
Lyons and printed another traft relative to civil law, 
which was much admired for the elegance of its ftyle, 
and the knowledge it difplayed in Roman antiquity. He 
then accepted the profefi’orihip of belles-lettres at Lau- 
fanne. While occupying the chair of jurifprudence at 
Strafourgh, he had invitations from feveral fovereigns to 
fettle in their dominions. Thefe he refufed, in order that 
he might lupport the proteftant councils at Orleans. The 
fupervening troubles caufed him to retire for a time to 
Sancerre, where he compoled an excellent work, De Con- 
Jolatione. He afterwards went to Geneva, where, in 1573, 
the chair of law was conferred upon him, which he re¬ 
gained till 1578. He then left Geneva, and taught law at 
JBafil, where he terminated his life in 1590. His works 
were publilhed collectively 1 a James Lect, in 3 vols. folio, 
Geneva, 1599. re ' 
HOT'NESS, f. Heat; violence; fury. 
HO'TON, or Coton, a province of the Manchoo Tar¬ 
tars, fubjeft to China, fituated on the fouth-eaft border 
of the defect of Gobi, or Shamo, fuppofed to have be¬ 
longed to the ancient Chatee. It is very populous; the in¬ 
habitants are commercial, cultivate cotton, flax, hemp, 
and wheat, and make confiderable quantities of wine. 
HOTOWAC'ZYN, a town of Lithuania, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Troki: lixteen miles ealt of Grodno. 
HOTS, f. with cockfighters, the foft bits of leather 
fattened to the fpurs of fighting-cocks to prevent them 
from hurting one another in fparring. 
HO-TSIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chan-fi : twenty five miles weft of Kiang. 
HOT'SPRINGS. See the article Spring. 
HOT'SPUR, f. A man violent; paflionate ; precipi¬ 
tate; and heady.—Wars are begun by hair-brained dill'o- 
lute captains, parafitical fwarmers, unquiet hot/purs, and 
reftlefs innovators. Burton. —A kind of pea of fpeedy 
growth.—Of fuch peas as are planted or fown in the gar¬ 
dens, the hotjpur is the fpeedieft of any in growth. Mor¬ 
timer. 
HOT'SPURRED, adj. Vehement; rafn; heady.—To 
draw Mars like a young Hippolytus, with an effeminate 
countenance, or Venus like that hotfpurred Harpalice in 
Virgil, this proceedeth from a fenfelefs judgment. Peachum. 
HOT'TE, a mountain in the weftern part of the fouth- 
ern peninfula of the ifland of Hilpaniola. 
HOT'TENPLOZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Perau, inlulated in Silefia: twelve miles north-north-eaft of 
JagendorL 
II O T 
FIOT'TENTOT, f An inhabitant or native of Hot- 
TENTOTTiA, which lbe. 
HOTTENTOT CHER'RY. See-CASSiNE mauroce- 
nia and Celstrus lucidus. 
HOTTENTOVTIA, a very extenfive countiy in the 
fouth of Africa, commencing at the Cape of Good Hope, 
which it includes, and extending interiorly to the land of 
Caffraria, and to very remote regions not yet known. For 
particulars of the firlt difeovery and fettlement of the Cape 
by the Dutch, the mode by which they feduced the inha¬ 
bitants to give up the diftribt every way-round, and their 
ungenerous and cruel oppreflion of the harmlefs Hotten¬ 
tots after they had become mafters of their land, fee the 
article Good Hope, vol. viii. p. 243-246. 
Though the natives of this widely-extended country 
all go by the generic name of Hottentots, yet they 
conlift of many diftinct tribes, governed by different hon- 
quers, or chiefs, who have no fixed refidence, living like 
the Bedouin Arabs, in huts or portable houfes, and re¬ 
moving their kralls, or villages, whenever the pafture be¬ 
comes too bare for the fubfiltence of their cattle, and 
upon the natural or violent death of an inhabitant. The 
known tribes are the Kochaquan, Suffaquan, Odiquah, 
Chirigquan, Greater and Lefler Namaquan, Attaquan, 
Heffaquan, Sonquan, Dunquan, Damaquan, Gauros or 
Gouriquan, Houteniquan, Chamtover, and Heikom. 
Among the different tribes of Hottentots, the women 
wear two or three coverings called a krofs, faftened about 
their bodies like an apron; the outermoft, u'hich is the 
largeft, meafuring from feven inches to twelve. This is 
frequently adorned with glafs beads in different forms. 
The garment ufually W'orn for covering the body, is the 
flein of a wild beaft, tied forwards over the breaft. If the 
weather is not cold, they let it hang loofe over their 
fhoulders, in a carelefs manner, when it reaches down to 
the calves of their legs, leaving the lower part of their 
breaft, ftomach, and fore part of the legs and thighs, bare; 
but in rainy and cold weather they wrap it round them ; 
fo that the fore part of the' body likewife, is in fome mea- 
fure covered with it, as far as below the knees. That 
which is ufed by the women for the fame purpofe, does 
not differ from thofe ufed- by the men. The women fre¬ 
quently go bareheaded ; when they cover their heads, it 
is with a cap in the form of a fhort truncated cone, with¬ 
out any feam, made of fome animal’s ftomach. Over this 
cap they fometimes wear another ornament, coniifting of 
an oval wreath, made of buffalo’s hide, with the brown 
hair outwards. Both the rims of this wreath, as well the 
lower one on which it refts, as the upper one, are always 
fmooth and even; each of them let with a row of fmall 
Ihells, to the number of more than thirty, in fuch a man¬ 
ner, that, being placed quite clofe to each other, their 
beautiful white enamel, together with their mouths, is 
turned outwards. Neither the ears nor nofes of the Hot¬ 
tentots are adorned with any pendants or other ornaments. 
The necks of the men are bare, but thofe of the women 
are. often decorated with a ftrip of undreffed leather, upon 
which are ftrung eight or ten (hells. Another ornament 
in ufe with both l’exes, is rings on their arms and legs. 
Moll of thefe rings are made of thick leather (traps, ge¬ 
nerally cut in a circular lhape, which, by being beat and 
held over the fire, are rendered tough enough to retain 
the curvature that is given them. It is thefe rings that, 
according to Sparrman, gave rife to the unfounded and 
abfurd notion that the Hottentots wrap guts about their 
legs, in order to eat them occafionally. The men wear 
from one to five or fix of thefe rings on their arms, juft 
above their wrift, and alfo on their legs. Thefe rings are 
of various thicknefs, viz. fometimes of that of a goofe- 
quill, and fometimes two or three times that lize. Now 
and then they are made of pieces of leather, Conning one 
entire ring, fo that the arms and feet mult be put through 
them, when the wearer wilhes to put them on. Rings of 
iron and copper, but efpecially of brafs, of the fize of a 
goofe-quill, are confidered as genteeler, and more valuable, 
than thofe made of leather. They leldom wear any Ihoes. 
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