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or, recording to Skinner, from whirl.] To throw with vio¬ 
lence; to drive impetuoufly.—If he thruft him of hatred, 
or hurl at him hy laying of wait. Numb. xxxv. zo. 
Young Phaeton, 
From eaft to north irregularly hurl'd, 
'Firft let himlelf 0V1 fire, and then the world. Dryden. 
To utter with vehemence ; [ hurler , Fr. to make a howling 
or hideous noife.] This fenfe is not in ufe. 
Highly they rag'd againft the Higheft, 
Hurling defiance towards the vaults of heaven. Milton. 
To play at a kind of game. 
HURL, /. Tumult; riot; commotion.—He in the fame 
hurl murdering fuch as he thought would withftand his 
defire, was chof'en king. Knolles. 
HURL'S AT,/.' Whirlbat. Ainfwortk. 
HURL'ER,/ [from hurl.\ One that plays at hurling. 
—The hurlers mult hurl man to man, and not two fet 
upon one man at once. Carew. 
HUR'LEY, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Ullter county, New York, containing 847 inhabitants ; of 
i whom 116 are electors. It is fituated on Efopus Kill, 
about five miles from the weft bank of Hudfon’s river, 
and one hundred north of New York. 
HURL'ING,/ The aft of throwing with violence ; a 
kind of; play. 
HURL'WIND,/ A whirlwind ; a violent guft : 
Like fcattdr’d down by howling Eurus blown, 
By rapid hurlwinds from his manfion thrown. Sandys. 
HUR'LY, or Hur'lyburly,/ [from the Fr. hurlu- 
brelu, inconfiderately.] Tumult; commotion; buftle.— 
Methinks, I lee this hurly on foot. Shakefpeare. 
Poor difcontents, 
Which gape and rub the elbow at the news 
Of hurlyburly innovation. Shakefpeare. 
HU'RON, one of the five principal lakes in North 
America. It lies between 43. 30. and 47. 30. N. lat.-and 
between 80.45. an d 84. 45. W. Ion. and is reckoned to 
be upwards of 1000 miles in circumference. The filh 
are of the fame kind as in Lake Superior, ami it commu¬ 
nicates with that lake, through the ftraits of St. Marie 
on the north-weft, with Michigan on the weft, and with 
Erie on the louth. It is of a triangular lhape, and on the 
fouth-weft part is Saguinum or Sagana bay, eighty miles 
in length, and about eighteen or twenty in breadth; the 
other molt remarkable baj^ is Thunder Bay, which fee; 
alfo fee Manataulin Island, and Michillimakkinack. 
On the banks of the lake are found amazing quantities of 
land-cherries. The land, bordering on the weftern Ihore 
ol the lake is greatly inferior in quality to that on lake 
Erie. It is mixed with land and'final 1 . Itones, and is 
principally covered with pines, birch, and fome oaks; 
but a little diitance from the lake the foil is very luxu¬ 
riant. Twenty years ago, part of the Indian nations, cal¬ 
led Chepaways and Ottawas, who inhabited round Sagui¬ 
num bay, and on the banks of the lake, could furnifh two 
hundred warriors ; and thole of the latter nation, who 
lived on the eaft fide of lake Michigan, twenty-one miles 
from Michillimakkinack, could furnifh two hundred 
warriors. 
HU'RON, a fmall river of the American States, on the 
north-weft territory, which, after a courle of thirty-eight 
miles, Falls into Lake St. Clair from the north-weft: Gna- 
denhuetten lies on this river.—Alfo the name of another 
fmall river in the lame territory, wdiich runs north-eaft- 
ward into lake Erie, forty miles weftward of Cayahoga, 
and fifteen fouth-eaft of the mouth of Sandulky Lake. 
HUR'RICANE, or Hurrica'no, f. \Jiuracan , Span. 
ouragan, Fr. ] A violent ftorm, fuch as is often expe¬ 
rienced in the weftern hemifphere.—A ftorm or hurricano, 
though but the force of air, makes a l.range havock where 
it comes. Burnet. 
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So, where our wide Numidian waftes extend, 
Sudden th’ impetuous hurricanes delcend. 
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, 
Tear up the lands, and fweep whole plains away. Add fen 
HUR'RIER, / One that hurries; a dilturber.—Mars, 
that horrid hurrier of men,, Chapman. 
To HUR'RY, v. n. [hejtgian, Sax. to plunder; liurs was 
like wife a word ufed.by the old Germans in urging their 
horfes to fipeed; but feems the imperative of the verb.] 
To haften ; to put into precipitation or confufion ;• to 
drive confufedly.—A man has not time to liibdue his 
palfions, eftablilh his foul in virtue, and come up to the 
perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the Have. 
Addifon. 
Stay thofe fudden gufts of palfion 
That hurry you away. Rowe. 
To HUR'RY, v.n. To move on with precipitation: 
Did you but know what joys your way attend. 
You would not hurry to your journey’s end. Dryden. 
HUR'RY,/ Tumult; precipitation; commotion.—. 
Ambition raifes a tumult in the foul, it inflames the mind, 
and puts it into a violent hurry of thought. Addifon. 
The pavement founds with trampling feet, 
And the mixt hurry barricades the ftreet. Gay. 
HUR'RY-SKUR'RY, adv. [a word formed to exprefs 
its own meaning.] Wildly: 
Each hole and cupboard they explore. 
Each creek and cranny of his chamber. 
Run hurry-furry round the floor, 
And o’er the bed and teller clamber. - Gray. 
HURST, Hyrst, or Herst, derived from the Saxon 
hypft, i.e. a wood, or grove of trees. There are many 
places in Kent, Suflex, and Hampftiire, which begin and 
end with this fyllable; and the reafon may be, becaufe 
the great wood called Andrefwald extended through 
thofe countries. 
HURST CASTLE, a caftle in Hampftiire, not far from 
the town of Lymingtcn. It is heated on the extreme 
point of a neck of land, which ftioots into the lea toward 
the Ifle of Wight, from which it is diftanttwo miles. In 
this caftle Charles I. was confined previously to his being 
brought to trial. It is believed that this neck of land 
once united the Ifle of Wight to this part of Hampshire. 
To HURT, v. a. prefer. I hurt-,' part. palf. I have hurt: 
[hypr, Sax. wounded; heurter, Fr. to Itrike.] To mil- 
chief; to harm.—He. that overcometh ftiall not be hurt of 
the fecond death. Revelations. 
Virtue may be alfail’d, but never hurt-, 
Surpris’d by unjuft force, but not enthrall’d; Milton. 
To wound ; to pain by fome bodily .harm : 
It breeds contempt 
For herds to iiften, or prefume to pry. 
When the hurt lion groans within his den. Dryden. 
To damage ; to impair.—See thou hurt not the oil and 
wine. Revelation. 
HURT,/- Harm ; mifehief.—I have flajn a man to my 
hurt. Genefis. —Wound or bruife.—The pains of fickneis 
and hurts, hunger, thirft, and cold, all men feel. Locke. 
In arms and fcience ’tis the fame. 
Our rival’s hurls create our fame. Prior. 
Injury; wrong.—Why fliould damage grow to the hurt 
of the king. Ezra. 
HURTA'DO (Thomas), a celebrated Spanilh divine, 
native of Toledo, who entered early among the friar 
minorsj and became a regular clerk of that order. He 
officiated as profelfor of philofophy and theology,, at 
Rome, at Alcaia, and at Salamanca, with great reputation, 
and died in 1659. He was the author of 1. Syftems of 
Ehiloiopiiy and Theology, according to the doftrine of 
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