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want of millet for his fupport. When lie can fliake off his 
indolence, he affembles his courtiers, travels with them 
through the villages of his kingdom, eats what provifions 
he finds, drives away the cattle, and expofes the owners 
to public fale. 
HOU'ANG-TCHEOU', a city of China, of the firft 
rank, in the province of Tche-kiang: 580 miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Peking. Lat. 30. 5-3. N. Ion. 137. Et Ferro. 
HOU'BIGANT, (Charles-Francis), a learned and pi¬ 
ous French catholic divine, born at Paris in 1686. The 
greatelt part of his time he fpent in the molt laborious 
ft tidy, with a view to the illuftration of the facred icrip- 
tures; and as he had the misfortune, by the lois of his 
hearing, to be deprived of the chief pleafures of fociety, 
he applied with the greater earneftnels to his books, in 
which he found conliant confolation under his infirmity. 
In 1753, he gave to the world his molt valuable and im¬ 
portant work, an edition of the Hebrew Bible, entitled, 
Biblia Hebraica, cum Notts criticis, 6 ? Verjione Latina, ad Notas 
criticas faEla : accedunt Libri Greci, qui Dcutero-Canomci vo- 
cantur. Authors, &c. in 4. vols. folio. He died in 1783, at 
the great age of ninety-eight. Belides his grand work, 
he publilhed, 1. A Latin Tranflation of the Plalter, from 
the Hebrew, 1746, 121110. 2. A Latin Tranflation of the 
whole Old Tellament, 1753, in 8 vols. 8vo. 3. Hebrew 
Roots, 1732, 8vo. 4. An Examination of the Plalter of 
the Capuchins, 121110. 5. A French tranflation of an Eng- 
Ii111 book, by one Forbes, entitled, Thoughts 011 Natural 
Religion ; and a French tranflation, from the Englifli, of 
the greater part of The Works of Charles I.eflie, 8vo. 
1770. He alio left behind him, in manufcript, A Trea- 
tife on Study; a tranflation of The Treatil'e of Origen 
againft Celfus ; a Life of Cardinal Bemlle ; and a com¬ 
plete French tcanllatiou of the Old and New Tellament, 
according to corrected texts of the originals. 
■KO-U'DRY (Vincent), a learned French Jefuit, born at 
Tours in 1631. He .died in 1729, at the advanced age of 
ninety-nine, with his faculties unimpaired, and able to 
read without the aid of fpeftacles. He was the author of 
an immenfe compilation in 22 vols. 4to. entitled, La Bi- 
bliotheque ties Predicatcurs, containing much good matter, 
together with what is bad, or indifferent; a treatife On 
the Manner of imitating good Preachers; Ars Typogra- 
phica, Carmen, &c. 
HOUDA'IN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diilricl of Bethune : two leagues fouth of Bethune. 
HOU'DAN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oile, and chief place of a canton, in the dif¬ 
trict of Montfort: three leagues well of Montfort, and 
three and a half fouth of Mantes. 
HOVE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Dront- 
heim : twenty-live miles north-well of Drontheim. 
HOVE. The preterite of heave. 
To HOVE, v. n. To hover: 
No joy of ought that under heaven doth hove, 
Can comfort me: Spenfcr. 
FIO'VEDEN (Roger de), an Englifli hillorian, born at 
York ; and, entering into the church, was fome time a 
profeffdr of theology at Oxford. He clofely applied him¬ 
self to the compilation of Englifli hiftory, and wrote an¬ 
nals in Latin, commencing from 731, the period at which 
Bede flnilhes, and coming down to the third year of king 
Tohn, A. D. 1201. He is highly commended for his dili¬ 
gence and fidelity, and is reckoned by Leland to have 
furpafled all the writers of his clals who preceded him. 
Such was his authority, that Edward I. cauled llrift fearcli 
to be made in all the libraries for copies of Hoveden’s 
Annals, in order to afcertain the homage due from the 
crown of Scotland. This work was publilhed in fir Henry 
Saville’s Collection of ancient Englifli Hiltorians, 1596, 
2601, folio. 
HOUEI'LLES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrict of Caftel Jaloux: two leagues and a half fouth of 
Cartel Jaloux. 
HOV'EL, f. [diminutive of hope, houfe, .Sax.] A Ihed 
open on the tides, and covered overhead. A mean habi¬ 
tation ; a cottage. 
To HOV'EL, v. a. To flielter in a hovel: 
And waft thou fain, poor father, 
To hovel thee with twine and rogues forlorn. 
In tbort and mufty ft:raw ?- , King Lear. 
HOV'EL, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and bi- 
ihopric of Paderborn : fix miles north-weft of Lipplpring 
HO'VEN, part. pajf. Railed ; fwelied ; tumefied. 
HOVE'NIA,yi [io named by Thunberg, in honour of 
M. ten Haven , one of the privy counfellors of Holland, a 
great cultivator of exotic plants.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs peutandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
dumofas, (rhamrii, JuJJL) The generic characters are—Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium one-leafed, hairy at the bafe within, 
permanent, five-parted ; parts ovate, reflex, deciduous. 
Corolla: petals five, obovate, very obtule, patulous, roll¬ 
ed up, involving the ftamens, iruerled into the calyx be¬ 
tween the fegments, and of the fame length with them. 
Stamina : filaments live, inferted into the bale of the ca¬ 
lyx, and a little fhorter; antherae roundilh, hid within 
the petals. PiftillUm; germ fuperior; ftyle upright, 
much fliorter than the calyx ; ftigmas three, from patu¬ 
lous reflex, blunt. Pericarpium : capl’ule ovate-globu¬ 
lar, three-furrowed, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds : 
folitary, lens-lhaped, very fmooth. Sometimes, but fel- 
dcm, the calyx is four-parted, and there are only four fta¬ 
mens.— EJfential CharaSler. Petals five, convoluted ; ftig- 
ma trifid ; capfule three-celled, three-valved. 
Hovenia dulcis, a Angle lpecies. Root perennial; ftem 
arboreous, thick, a fathom and a half in height; branches 
round, fmooth ; leaves alternate, petioled, fubcordate, 
ovate, acuminate, ferrate, hanging down, nerved, fmooth, 
a hand in length. Native of japan, near Nagasaki; flow¬ 
ering front June to Auguft, and ripening the fruit in No¬ 
vember and December. 
Tq IIOV'ER, v.n. [ kovio, to hang over, Welth.J To 
hang in the air over head, without flying off one way or 
other : 
Ah, my poor princes! ah, my tender babes! 
If yet your gentle fouls fly in the air, 
And be-not fix’d in doom perpetual. 
Hover about me with your airy wings. 
And hear your mother’s lamentation. Shukejpeare. 
To Hand in fufpenfe or ex Deflation.—-The landlord will 
no longer covenant with him ; for that he daily looketh 
after change and alteration, and hovercth in expectation of 
new worlds. Spenfer. —To wander about one place.—We 
fee fo warlike a prince at the head of lb great an army, 
hovering on the borders of our confederates. Addifon. 
HOV'ERING,^ The a< 5 l of hanging over in the air. 
HO'VESTADT, a town and caftle of Germany, on the 
Lower Rhine, in Weftphalia, fituated on the Lippe: 
eight miles weft of Lipplladt. 
HOU'GA (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Nogaro : feven miles weft-north-well of Nogaro. 
HOUGH, f. [from I105, Sax.] The lower part of the 
thigh.—Blood tliall be from the Iword unto the belly, and 
dung of men unto the camel’s hough. 2 Efd. xiii 3 6 .— 
[Hue, Fr.] An adz ; an hoe. See Hoe. —Did they really 
believe that a man, by houghs and an axe, could cut a god 
out of a tree ? Stillingfleet. 
To HOUGH, v.a. To hamftring; to difable by cutting 
the finews of the ham.—Thou lhalt hough their hories. 
JoJlj. ii. 6 .—To cut up with a hough or hoe. To hawk 
or fpit. This orthography is uncommon.—Neither could 
we hough or fpit from us; much lefs could we fneeze or 
cough. Grew, 
HO'VIA 
