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geft are eleven inches long, and nine inches broad in the 
middle, indented on their edges, having a prominent 
midrib, with feveral tranfverfe veins, from that to the 
(ides, which are alternate; thefe Hand upon long ilender 
foot-ftalks. The male flowers come out from between 
the leaves, upon peduncles which are three inches long ; 
they are formed into a clofe fpike, or catkin, forming a 
column, lying over each other like the fcales of filh. 
Browne makes this tree of the fame genus with the 
Hippomane, or manchineel. The branches are divided 
alike in both ; and the leaves, which Hand in the fame 
manner, reflecting a little backwards from the direction 
of the foot-ftalks, are difpofed pretty thick at the extre¬ 
mities of the branches, and have one gland only on each 
foot-ftalk; whereas in the manchineel there are two. 
This is full of’a thick tranfparent juice, that of milk, both 
acrid ; and the flowers, notwithftanding they differ in 
fome degree, agree in the formation of the llyl'e and ftigma, 
as well as in the difpofition of the antherse ; though the 
number of thefe be not the fame in both. In this, the 
fruit is regularly divided into cells: in that, the nut or 
(hell is harder, and the diviiions not fo regular; yet they 
are longitudinal, adjoining, in a number proportioned to 
the diviiions of the ftigma, and generally both regular 
and many in the younger germs, but fome abortive as the 
fruit increafes. 
The fruit is very curious in its ftrufture ; and the tree, 
when it grows well, is very fpreading and fliady. It 
fometimes calls a (hade of fixty feet diameter. But from 
the quicknefs of its vegetation, its parts are of fo loole a 
texture, that,a loud clap of thunder, or a fudden guft of 
wind, frequently caufes the largeft boughs to (hap afunder. 
Nor is its trunk of any ufe> except for fire-wood. Lin¬ 
naeus fays that the wood is fit for joilts and fpars: and 
that the juice, when it gets into the eyes, brings on blind- 
nefs after the eighth day. The feeds, according to Her¬ 
nandez, when roafted, purge both upwards and down¬ 
wards. Browne tailed one of them, and it appeared at 
firll to be both mild and pleafant; but it foon began to 
warm and feald both his palate and throat; which in¬ 
duced him "to look upon it as an improper purgative. 
This tree was introduced here before 1733, by William 
Houftoun, M. D. 
It is propagated by feeds, which -fliould be fown early 
in the fpring, in pots filled with light rich earth, and 
plunged into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark. If the feeds 
are freih, the plants will appear in about five or fix weeks 
after the feeds are fown. As the plants will advance very 
Fall, where due care is taken of them, they fliould have a 
large fhare of freih air admitted to them, in warm weather, 
otherwife they will draw up too weak. When the plants 
are about two inches high, they fliould be tranfplanted 
each into a feparate fmall pot filled with light rich earth, 
and plunged again into the hot-bed of tanner’s bark, 
being careful to (hade them from the heat of the fun, 
until they have taken new root; after which time they 
muft have free air admitted to them, by xaifing the glafles 
in proportion to the warmth of the feafon, and fliould be 
frequently, but gently, watered. .When the plants have 
filled thefe fmall pots with their roods, they mull be 
fhak'en out of them, and their roots trimmed, and then 
placed in larger pots, which fliould be filled with the like 
rich earth, and plunged again into the hot-bed, where 
they fliou’ld remain tiil Michaelmas* provided the plants 
have room, without touching the glades, at which time 
they muft be removed into the bark-ftove, and plunged 
in the wavmeft part thereof: during the winter feafon 
they mud be fparingly watered, for, as the plants have 
fucculent ftalks, much moifture will rot them; they muft 
alfo be kept very warm, otherwife they will not live in 
this country. In ftpnmer they muft have a large (hare 
of ffefti air in warm weather, but they muft not he re¬ 
moved into the open air, for they are too tender to live 
abroad in the warmed part of the year in this country. 
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This plant’ is now pretty common in the Englifh gar¬ 
dens, where there are collections of tender plants p're- 
ferved, (ome of which are grown to the height of twelve 
or fourteen feet, and many of them have produced flowers, 
but there has not been any of their fruit produced as yet 
in England. As thefe plants have ‘ample leaves, 'which 
are of a beautiful green colour, they afford an agreeable 
variety among other tender exotic plants ift the (love; 
for where they are kept warm, and duly refrefhed with 
water, they retain their leaves all' the year in verdure. 
It is much cultivated in Jamaica, for its beauty, and the 
fine (hade it yields. It loves a deep rich foil, and thrives 
bed near water. 
HUR'DAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the Candeifh 
country: twelve miles fouth-fouth-eail of Hindia, and 
(ixty-eight fouth-eaft of Indore. 
HUR'DEN / [from being made of hurds, or coarfe 
flax.] A coarfe kind of linen. It is ufed adjeBively, as 
linen, woollen , and words of that kind very’frequently are, 
—It is, when he is reaping, making hay, or when he is 
hedging in his hurden frock. Shenftone. 
HUR'DLE,/ [hypbel, Sax.] A texture of (licks woven 
together ; a crate : 
The fledge, the tumbril, hurdles, and the flail, 
Thefe all muft be prepar’d. Dry den. 
Grate on which criminals were dragged to execution.— 
The blackfmith was hanged, drawn, and quartered, at 
Tyburn; taking pleafure, upon the hurdle , to think that 
he fliould be famous in after-times. Bacon. 
HURDS,/ The refufe of hemp or flax. Ain [worth. 
HURD'WAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the northern 
part of the country of Delhi, on the Hitnmaleh, near the 
weft coaft of the Ganges, on the borders of Thibet: eighty- 
fix miles north of Delhi. Lat. 29. 55. N? Ion. 78. 23. E. 
Green’wich. 
HURE' (Charles), a learned and eminent French divine, 
the foil of-a labourer at Champigny-fur-Yone, in the 
diocefe of Sens, where he was born in 1639. As he early 
manifefted a llrong inclination for learning, he was fent 
by the archbifhop of Sens to the college des Graflins at 
Paris, where he foon diftinguiflied himfelf by his extra¬ 
ordinary proficiency in the different branchesol literature, 
liis: commendable behaviour, and amiable manners. As 
foon as he had completed his academical lludies, he was 
admitted into holy orders, and appointed one of the 
preachers of his college. Not long afterwards he was 
made profeflor of belles-lettres ; of which office he dil- 
charged the duties with great applaufe for five-and-twenty 
years, till he was made principal of the college of Bon- 
court, where he died in 1)17, in the feventy-eiglith year of 
his age. He publiihed, 1. An edition of the New Tefta- 
ment, in Latin, with fliort notes, which are much efteemed, 
1692,111 2 vols. i2tno. 2. Novum Te/lamentum regulis illuf- 
tratum, feu Canones facra Scriptures certa Methodo digejli, 
1696, 121110. which he afterwards abridged, threw into a 
new form, and publifhed in French, under the title of 
Grammaire facrec, ou Regies pour entendre le Sens litteral de 
l : Ecriture Sainte, 1707, nmo, 3. A French tranflation of 
the New Teftament, and of the author’s former Latin 
notes on it, with confiderable additions, 1702, in 4 vols. 
i2ino. 4. A Diftionary of the Bible, 1715, in 2 vols. 
folio, which is lefs perfeft and comp re hen five th m 
that of Calmer; aijd fome fliort pieces in Latin verfe. 
He was alfo the author, in part, of the Explication accom¬ 
panying M. de Saci’s Tranflation of the New Teftament j 
and of a Commentary on the Catholic Epntles and the 
Apocalypfe, in 7 vols. 181110. 
HURF'WA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Skone: ten miles’north-eaft of Lund.* 
HU'RIEL, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of Mont- 
lu9on : two leagues north-weft of Montlugon. 
To HURL, v. a. [from huorlt, to throw down, Iflandic -, 
or. 
