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Oppaa: eleven miles eaft of Troppau, and fix weft of 
Oderberg. 
IIULT'SIO, a town of Sweden, in. the province of 
Smaland : twenty-fix miles north of Wexio. 
RUI/VER, f. A provincial term for holly.—Save hul- 
ver and thorn, thereof flail forte make. TaJJir.. 
To HUM, v. a. \_komdan, Dut.] To make the noife of 
bees : 
An airy nation flew, 
Thick as the humming bees that hunt the golden dew 
In fummer’s heat. Dryden. 
To make an inarticulate and buzzing found : 
I think he’ll hear me: yet to bite his lip, 
And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me. Shakefp. 
To p.aufe in fpeaking, and fupply the interval with an au¬ 
dible emiflion of breath: 
Having pump’d up all his wit, 
And humm'd upon it, thus he writ: 
I ftill acquieft, 
And never humm'd and haw’d fedition, 
Nor liraffied treafpn. Hudibras. 
To make a dull heavy noife.—The mufical accents of the 
Indians to us are but inarticulate hummings ; as are ours 
to their otherwife-tuned organs. Glanville. 
Still hamming on, their drowfy courfe they keep, 
And lafli’d fo long, like tops, are lafli’d alleep. Pope. 
To ling low.-— Hum half a time. Pope. —To applaud. Ap¬ 
probation was formerly exprefied in public allemblies by 
a hum. 
HUM, f. The noife of bees or infefls : 
Nor undelightful is the ceafelefs hum 
To him w'ho mules through the woods at noon. Thomfon. 
A low confufed noife, as of bultling crowds at a diftance: 
From camp to camp, thro’ the foul womb of night, 
The hum of either army Hill refounds. Shakefpeare. 
Any low dull noife: 
Who fat the neareft, by the words o’ercome, 
Slept fall: the diftant nodded to the hum. Pope. 
A paufe with an inarticulate found.—-Your excufes want 
fome grains to make ’em current; hum and ha will not do 
the bufinefs Dryden. —In Hudibras it feems ufed for ham : 
And though his countrymen the Huns 
Did flew their meat between their hums 
And the horfes’ backs on which they ftraddle. 
And ev’ry man ate up his laddie. Hudibras. 
An expreflion of applaufe.—You hear a hum in the right 
place. SpeSalor. 
HUM, interjeH. A found implying doubt and delibera¬ 
tion : 
Let not your ears defpife the heavieft found 
That ever yet they heard. 
Hum! I guefs at it. Shakefpeare. 
HU'MAN, adj. [from humanus, Lat. humaiv, Fr.] Hav¬ 
ing the qualities of a man.-—To err is human- —to forgive 
divine.—-It will never be alked whether he be a gentle¬ 
man born, but whether he be a human creature ? Swift.— 
Belonging to a man.—The king is but a man as I am; 
the violet Ifneils to him as it doth to me; all his fenles 
have but human conditions. Shakefpeare. 
For man to tell how human life began 
Is hard; for who hifnfelf beginning knew? Milton. 
HU'MAN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Brac- 
fciu : fifty-fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Braclau. 
HU'MAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : feventy-four leagues foutii-eall of Zareng. 
_ HUMA'NA DE TOMPIE'RES, a town of North Ame¬ 
rica, in the province of New Mexico; thirty-one leagues 
iouth-fouth-eaft of Santa Fe, 
HUM 
HUMAfNE, adj. [from hum nine, Fr.] Kind; civil; be¬ 
nevolent ; good-natured.—Love of others, if it be not 
fpent upon a few, doth naturally fpread itfelf towards 
many, and maketh men become humane and charitable. 
Bacon. 
KUMA'NELY, adv. Kindly ; with good-nature.-—If 
they would yield us the fuperfiuity, while it were whole- 
fome, we might guefs they relieved 'us humanely. Shakefp. 
HU'MANIST, f. [from humanifle, Fr.] A philologer ; 
a. grammarian ; a term ufed in the fchools of Scotland. 
One verfed in human nature.—A juft naturalift, or huma- 
vif , who knows the creature Man, and judges ofhis growth 
and improvement in fociety. Shaftjbury. 
HUMAN'ITY, f \_humanite, Fr. from humanitas, Lat.] 
The nature of man.—Look to thyfelf; reach not beyond' 
humanity. Sidney. —Human kind; the colleftive body of 
mankind.—If he can untie thole knots, he is able to teach 
all humanity , and will do well to oblige mankind by his 
information. Glanville. —Benevolence ; tendernefs.—All 
men ought to maintain peace and the common offices of 
humanity and friendlhip in diverfity of opinions. Locke. 
How few, like thee, enquire the wretched out, 
And court the offices of foft humanity ? 
Like thee referve their raiment for the naked, 
Reach out their bread to feed the crying orphan, 
Or mix their pitying tears with thole that weep! Rowe. 
Philology ; grammatical ftudies. In Scotland, humaniores 
litera. —If then we may fpend fome of yong yeares in ftu¬ 
dies of humanity ; what better and more l weet ftudy is there 
for a young man than poetrie ? Harrington. 
We fometimes find examples of Humanity among peo¬ 
ple in the humbler walks of life, that would refleft ho¬ 
nour on perfons of the moft exalted rank. The follow¬ 
ing affords an inftance of filial duty, and of humanity, 
that is both plealing and pre-eminent: A free negro in 
the neighbourhood of Chriftianburg, being involved in a 
debt which he was unable to pay, acknowledged to his 
creditor that he had nothing left to fatisfy his demand, 
except his own perfon, of which he might difpofe as he 
thought fit ; the latter took the poor fellow at iris word, 
and fold him to the Danes. During his confinement at 
the fort, where he was fhut up with other Haves, till a llup 
fhould fail for the plantations in the Weft Indies, his fon 
formed the affeflionate and noble refolution of delivering 
him from flavery. The parental tendernefs of the old 
man, who chofe rather to forfeit his own liberty and en¬ 
dure the hardihips of perpetual flavery than to (ell his 
child, which, by the laws of his country, he might have 
done, prompted the latter to this heroic exertion of filial 
duty; he came to the fort, accompanied by fome of his 
relations, and infilled on being accepted inftead of his fa¬ 
ther ; this was granted, and the feene, which took place 
on their meeting, was fucli as muft have melted any heart 
excepting that of a dealer in (laves ; it was the conteft cf 
the nobleft and moft benevolent afFeftions ; the father, 
with grief and reluftance, accepted the freedom which 
was forced on him, and the generous youth l'urrendered 
his limbs to the chain, with apparent pleafure. This in- 
terefiing feene being reprefented to the Danifti governor, 
he generoully and humanely advanced the money to pay 
the debt; on which the young man was releafed, and liap- 
pinefs was reltored to this worthy negro family. 
To HU'MANIZE, v.a. [from knmanifer y Fr.] To lof- 
ten; to make fufceptible of tendernefs or benevolence : 
Here will I paint the charaflers of woe, 
And here my faithful tears in Ihow’rs (hall flow, 
To humanize the Hints whereon I tread. Wotton. - 
HUMANKFND, / The race of man; mankind : 
Bleft with a tafte exabt, yet unconfin’d; 
A knowledge both of books and humankind. Pope. 
HU'MANLY, adv. After the notions of men ; accord¬ 
ing to the power of men.—Thus the prelent happy prol- 
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