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weakened with hunger.—His ftrehgth ihall be hungcr- 
bitten. Job xviii. 12. 
Bred up in poverty and -ftraits at home; 
Loft in a clefert here, and hunger bit. Milton. 
HUN'GER CREEK, a navigation which carries the 
various water-machinery in the new and thriving manu¬ 
facturing town of Hamilton, between Albany and Sche- 
neftady, New York. 
HUN'GER-STARVED, adv. Starved with hunger; 
pinched by want of food : 
As to fome holy houfe th’ afiliffed came, 
The hunger-ft arv" d, the naked, and the lame: 
Want and difeafes fled before her name. Dry den. 
HUN'GERFORD, [formerly called Ingleford, Gngla- 
prop.b, Sax. the ford of the Englifli.] A town of Berk- 
lliire, fituated on the river Kennet, faid by Camden to 
have been anciently called Ingleford Charnham-fcreet. 
It is a fmall clean town, fituated near, though not diretftly 
on, the great Bath road, between Newbury and Marlbo¬ 
rough, fixty-five miles from Hyde-park corner, nine from 
Newbury, and ten. from Marlborough; has a weekly mar¬ 
ket every Wednefday, and a ftatute fair on the 10th of 
AugUft, and one for cattle the laft Wednefday in April. 
The town is governed by a chief conftable, who is af- 
fifted in the execution of his office by twelve feoffees and 
burgefles, a portreeve, fteward, town-clerk, and fome 
other inferior officers. 
HUN'GERFORD, a townfhip of the American States, 
in Franklin county, Vermont: (even miles fouth of the 
Canada line, and fourteen eaft of Lake Champlain. 
HUN'GERING,yi The act of craving after food. 
HUN'GERLY, adj. Hungry; in want of nourifhment: 
His head 
Grew thin and hunger ly, and feem’d to afk 
His fops as he was drinking. Shakcfpeare. 
HUN'GERLY, adv. With keen appetite : 
You have fav’d my longing, and I feed 
Moll hungerly- on your fight. Shakefpeare. 
HUN'GRED, adj. Pinched by want of food.—Odours 
do in a fmall degree nourift, and we fee men a -hungred 
love to fmell hot bread. Bacon. 
HUN'GRILY, adv. With keen appetite: 
Thus much to the kind rural gods we owe. 
Who pity’d fuffering mortals long ago ; 
When on harfli acorns hungrily they fed, 
And gave ’em nicer palates, better bread. Drydcn. 
HUN'GRINESS, f. The want of food, keeftnels of 
defire. 
HUN'GRY, adj. Feeling pain from want of food.— 
They that talk thus may fay that a man is always hungry, 
but that he does not always feel it; whereas hunger con- 
fifts in that very fenfation. Locke.- —Not fat; not fruitful; 
not prolific; more difpofsd to draw from other fub- 
ftances than to impart to them.—To the great day of re¬ 
tribution our Saviour refers us, for reaping the fruits 
that we here low in the moll hungry and barren foil. 
Smalridge. 
HUN'GRY E'VIL, f. A difeafe incident to horfes, a 
greedinefs to devour without chewing. 
HUN'GRY POINT, a cape on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of St. Vinceht. Lat. 13. 28. N. Ion. 61. 11. W. 
Greenwich. 
HUNIN'GUE, or Hu'ningen, a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton,-in the diftrift of Altkirch, fituated on the Rhine. 
The town is final!, but handfome, and regularly fortified 
by M. Vauban. In November 1796, the Auftrians made 
pn attempt upon this town, but were repulfed, with the 
lofs of 1800 men. Two miles north of Bale, and fourteen 
eaft of Altkirch. 
HUNKS, J. \_hunjker, fordid, Illandic,] A covetous 
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fordid wretch ; a mifer; a curmudgeon.—The old hunks 
was well ferved, to bt tricked out of a whole hog for the 
lecuring of his puddings. L'Eftrange. 
HUN'MANBY, a town of the Eaft Riding of York- 
fiiire, fituated about two miles from the German ocean, 
or Filey bay. It Hands upon a fifing ground ; is covered 
with a fine hanging wood on the north-weft, where has 
formerly been a caftle, and the weft fide commands a fine 
profpeft of the fea. Hunmanby is distant eleven miles 
from Scarborough, eight from Bridlington, arid 209 from 
London. The market it on Tuefdays. Fairs, May 6 and 
Oftoher 29. 
HUN'NARYD, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smalarid : eighteen miles fouth-weft of Johnkioping- 
HUN'NIUS (Giles), a celebrated German lutheran di¬ 
vine, born at Winenda in Wirtemberg, in 1550. He 
was fent to ft he nniverfity of Tubingen, where lie applied 
with commendable affiduity to his ftudies, and took his 
degree of M. A. with luch applanfe, that at only twenty- 
fix years of age he was recommended to the landgrave of 
Heffe, as a proper perfon to fill the vacant theological 
chair at Marpurg; foon after which he was admitted to 
the degree of doffor of divinity at Tubingen. Hunnius 
now rendered himfelf fo famous among the Lutherans, 
that in 1592 he Was invited into Saxony, to reform that 
electorate. Having accepted the invitation, he was ap¬ 
pointed principal profeflor of divinity at Wittemberg, 
firft minifter of the church at the caftle, and a member 
of the ecclefiaftical confiftory. .In 1595, he was made 
fuperintendant of the church of Wittemberg; and in the 
fame year was engaged in his celebrated controverfv with 
Samuel Huber, on the fubjeft of election and predeftina- 
tion. He was one of the chief opponents of Gretfer and 
Tanner the Jefuits, in the conference between the Luthe¬ 
rans and Roman-catholics at Ratifbon, in 1602; and he 
died in the following year, in the fifty-fecond year of his 
age. His works confilt of 1. Commentaries on Matthew, 
John, and almoft all the canonical epiftles, in Latin. 2. 
Short German notes on the gofpels and epiftles. 3. Ho¬ 
milies on fix of the Prophets, See. 4. Orations. 5. Thefes. 
,6. A Catechifm, polemical trafts, &c. An edition of the 
whole has been publifhed, in five volumes folio. 
HUN'NIUS (Nicholas), fon of the preceding, and like 
him a lutheran divine, born at Marpurg in 1585. He 
went through his courfes of philofophy and theology at 
the univerfity of Wittemberg, and was appointed to the 
profeftorlhip of the former faculty, with penniftion at the 
fame time to deliver ledfures on theology. Afterwards 
he was appointed fuperintendant of Eilenburg; was ad¬ 
mitted to the degree of doctor of divinity; and nomi¬ 
nated one of the theological profeffors at Wittemberg. 
He died in his fifty-eighth year. He was the author cf 
numerous publications; the principal of which were, i. 
Harmonia Evangeliorum Dominicalium cum Hiftoriis Vet. Tejl. 
2. Epitome Crcdendorum. 3. Examcn Errorum Photinianorum-, 
and a variety of treatifes in controverfy with the Catho¬ 
lics and Calvinifts. 
HUN'NOLD (Francis), a German Jefuit, native of 
Naffau. His fermons are reprefented to be lome of the 
heft that appeared in Germany at the period when he 
fiourilhed, and fill fix folio volumes, which were firft pub- 
lilhed at Cologne and Auglburg. Afterwards editions 
of them were' multiplied in the different provinces of 
Germany. 
HU'NOLSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the Lower 
Rhine, and afrchbilhopric of Treves: five miles fouth of 
Berncaftel, aild eighteen eaft of Treves. 
HUNS, or Hun ns, one of thefe ancient paftoral or 
fhepherd tribes, who, bScoming too numerous for any 
moderate diftrieft to contain, burft from their original c 
feats with the impetuous violence of a torrent, arid over¬ 
whelmed the fairefc portions of the Afiatic and European 
continents. The beft account of this formidable people 
is to be gleaned from the hiftoric pages of the celebrated 
Gibbon, in his “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire-.'’ 
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