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HO'VIA, f Once the name of fome .fruit-bearing ex¬ 
otic : 
Thus fpake the goddefs (on her painted (kin 
Were figures wrought), and next calls hovia in; 
That for its ftony fruit may be defpis’d, 
33 ut for its virtue next to cocoa priz’d. Tate. 
HOUL, a river which runs into the Meufe near Givet. 
HOULE, a tribe of Arabs, fubieft to the king of Per- 
fia, who inhabit all the coalt from Bender Abbas to Cape 
JBerdiftan, and poflefs all the ports in this extent of coad. 
One part of the traft is parched and barren; but a range 
of hills, like Dahr Alban, extends nearly to the fe.a, and 
affords wood, which is cut down and exported by the in¬ 
habitants. Notwithftanding thefe natural advantages, the 
Arabs of Houle do not cultivate their lands, but live by 
hunting and hilling. They are Sunnites; and are elteemed 
among their neighbours for valour. If their forces could 
be brought to act in combination, they might ealily con¬ 
quer all the cities upon the Perfian Gulf. But almoft 
every city is fubject to a particular fchiech ; and, although 
thefe fchiechs are all defcendants from the fame family, 
they choofe rather to remain petty and poor, than to raile 
themfelves to a more opulent and refpeftable condition, 
by fubmitting to aft in concert, under the direction of 
one grand fchiech. 
HOU'LET, f The vulgar name for an owl: 
Adder’s fork, and blind worm’s fling, 
lizard’s leg, and houlct's wing. Shahefpeare. 
HOULIE'RES, (Antoniette du Liger de la Garde des), 
a diftinguilhed French poetefs, born at Paris in 1638. Na¬ 
ture beftowed upon her in an equal lliare the beauties of 
perfon and of the underdanding. Her talents for writing 
verle were lirlt cultivated by the poet Helnault, and were 
afterwards improved by her own exertions. She married 
early Lafon leigneur des Houlieres, w'ho was attached to 
her on account of her lliining talents. Becoming a wi¬ 
dow, lhe fell into indigent circumstances. She i’olaced 
herfelf, however, with poetical Itudy, and acquired the 
knowledge of the Latin, Italian, and Spaniih, languages. 
Philofophy and religion were called in to fupport her un¬ 
der the long and painful diforders, which, in 1694., brought 
her life to a termination. She was affociated to the aca¬ 
demies of Arles, and of the Ricovrati. Her poems were 
collected in 2 vols. 8vo. in 1724, and reprinted in 1747 in 
2 vols. i2mo. They confill of Idylls, Eclogues, Odes, 
Epigrams, and the tragedy of Genferic. Of thefe the Idylls 
are the molt elteemed, and are accounted the belt compo¬ 
sitions of that clafs in the French language. 
HOULS'WORTHY, a town in Devon 111 ire: it has a 
market on Saturdays, and is 215 miles from London. 
HOULT, f. [from holt, Sax.] A linall wood. Obfokte. 
Or as the wind, in hoults and lhady greaves, 
A murmur makes among the boughs and leaves. Fairfax. 
HOU'MA, a town of Aliatic Turkey,' in the province 
of Natolia : twenty-four miles fouth-ead of Kara-hilar. 
HOU'NA, a cape of Scotland, on the north coalt of 
the county of Caithnefs : two miles welt of Duncanlby 
Head. Lat. 58. 33. N. Ion. o. 15. E. Edinburgh. 
HOUND, f. [from hunb, Sax. hund, Scot.] The molt 
traftable and lagacious of ail our hunting’dogs. See the 
article 'Canis, vol. iii. p. 717. 
• To HOUND, v. a. To let oh the chafe.—God is Did to 
harden the heart permiffively, but not operatively nor ef- 
feftually; as he who only lets loole a greyhound out of 
the flip, is faid to hound him at the hare. Eranthall. —To 
hunt; to purfue.—If the wolves had been hounded by 
tigers, they Ihould have worried them. L'EJtrange. 
HOUND-POINT, a cape of Scotland, in the Frith of 
Forth, and north coalt of the county of Linlithgow : ie- 
ven miles wed-north-weft of Leith. 
HOU'ND’s-TONGUE. See Cynoglossxjm. 
HOUNDS, f. A fea term, the gradual projection of the 
malt head. 
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HOUN'SLO.W, a market-town, in the county of Mid- 
dlefex, ten miles from London ; it is a lively cheerful lit¬ 
tle town, owing to its being fo great a thoroughfare to ail 
the fouthern and weltem parts of England. The fairs 
are Trinity-Monday, and the Monday after September 29. 
The market is on Thurfdays, Here is a good charity- 
fchool, and a chapel of eafe. It had formerly a convent 
of mendicant friars, who, by their inftitution, were to beg 
alms lor the ranlom of captives taken by the infidels. , 
HOUR, /] [_heure, Fr. bora, Lat.] The twenty-fourth 
part of a natural day; the fpace of iixty minutes. See 
the article Chronology, vol. iv. p. 533. 
See the minutes how they run : 
How many makes the Aoitr full complete, 
How many hours bring about'the day. 
How many days will rinifh up the year. 
How many years a mortal man may live. Shahefpeare. 
A particular time: 
The confcious wretch mult all his arts reveal, 
From the firll moment of.his vital breath. 
To his laft hour of unrepenting death. Drydcn. 
The time is marked by tire clock.—The hour runs through 
the roughed day. Shahejpeare. 
HOUR'-CIRCLES, or Horary-Circles, great circles 
meeting in the poles of the globe or world, and eroding- 
the e^uinoftial or equator at right angles; the fame as 
meridians. They are fuppofed to be drawn through every 
15th degree of the equinoctial and equator, each anl’wer- 
ing to an hour, and dividing them into 24 equal parts. 
On both globes they are fupplied by the meridian hour- 
circle and index. See the article Geography, vol. viii. 
p. 356. 
HOUR'-GLASS, a kind of chronometer or clepfydra, 
ferving to mealure time by the defeent or running of 
land, water, &c. out of one glafs veffel into another. The 
bed, it is laid, are luch as, inltead of fand, have egg- 
Ihells, well dried in the oven, then beaten fine and fitted. 
HOUR'-LINES, on a dial, are lines which arife from 
the interleftions of the plane of the dial with the leveral 
planes of the hour-circles of the fphere ; and therefore, 
mult be all right lines on a plane dial. 
HOUR'-SCALE, a divided line on the edge of Collins's 
quadrant, being only two lines of tangents of 45 degrees 
each, fet together in the middle. Its ufe, together with 
the lines of latitude, is to draw the hour-lines of dials 
that have centres, by means of an equilateral triangle 
drawn on the dial-planes. 
HOUR'LY, adj. Happening or done every hour; fre¬ 
quent ; often repeated: 
Alcyone 
Computes how many nights lie had been gone, 
Obferves the waining moon with hourly view, 
Numbers her age, and wilhes for a new. Dry den. 
HOUR'LY, adv. Every hour; frequently t 
They with ceafelefs cry 
Surround me, as thou favv’d; hourly conceiv’d, 
And hourly born, with forrow infinite! Milton. 
HOURS, or Ho ree, in mythology, the daughters of 
Jupiter and Themis; at fird only three in number,- Eu- 
nomia, Dice, and Irene ; to which were afterwards added 
two more, Carpo and Thallote. Homer makes them the 
door-keepers of heaven. Ovid allots them the employ¬ 
ment of harnefiing the Sun : “ Jungere equos Titan velo- 
cibus imperat Horis.” And fpeaks of them as danding, 
at equal diltances, about the throne of Sol: “ Et politic 
fpatiis equalibus, Horse.” The poets reprefent them as 
drelfed in fine coloured or embroidered robes, and gliding 
on with a quick and eai'y motion. 
HOURS, Hora, f. in the Romifh church, are certain 
prayers performed at dated times of the day; as matins, 
vel'pers, lauds, &c. 
HOUR'SAK, a town of Afia, in Perfian Armenia-: 
fifty leagues ead-north-ead of Erivan. 
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