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Thomas Aquinas. 2. Refolutiomm Orthodoxo-morulium , Lib. 
VI. 1653, folio. 3. De con.orua fujientatione Eccle/iajhcorum. 
4. Refolutionum moralium de Refidentia facra, Lib. X!l. 5. Re- 
folutiones de unico Martyrio, written in opposition to t 
Jel’iut Theophilus Raynaud's treatife De Martyrio per pcjl , 
HUR / TER,y; One that does. harm. 
HURT'FUL, adj. Mifchievous; pernicious: 
The hurtful hazle in the vineyard (hun. 
Nor plant it to receive the Setting fun. Dryden. 
HURTTULLY, adv. Mifchievoufly ; pernicioufly. 
HURT'FULNESS,/ Mifchievoufnefs; pernicioufnefs. 
To HUR'TLE, v.n. \_heurter, Fr. urtare, Ital.] To clafli j 
to fkirmiffi; to run againft any thing; to joltle ; to meet 
in fiiock and encounter. Hanmer. —The noife of battle 
hurtled in the air. Shakefpcarc. 
To HUR'TLE, v. a. To move with violence or impetu- 
ofity. This is probably the original of hurl. Obfolcte. 
His harmful club he ’gan to hurtle high, 
And threaten battle to the fairy knight. Fairy Queen. 
HURT'LESS, adj. Innocent; liarmlefs; innoxious; 
doing no harm: 
Unto her home he oft would go, 
Where bold and hurtlefs many a play he tries, 
Her parents liking well it fnould be fo; 
For fimple goodnefs ihined in his eyes. Sidney. 
Receiving no hurt. 
HURT'LESSLY, adv. Without harm. 
HURT'LESSNESS, f. Freedom from any pernicious 
quality. 
KURT'LING, /I The act of fkirmiffiing. 
HUS, or Hussu, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Moldavia, the fee of a Greek bilhop, Situated 
on the Prutli. Here Peter the Great made peace with the 
Turks: Seventy miles South-weft of Bender, and eighty - 
feven north-north-weft of Ifmael. Lat. 46. 35. N. Ion. 46. 
20. E. Ferro. 
HUS'BAND, f. [,kofsband , Dan. mafter, from houfe and 
bonda. Runic, a mafter.] The correlative to wife ; a man 
married to a woman : 
Thy hujband is thy life, thy lord, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy Sovereign. Shakefpeare. 
The male of animals: 
Ev’n though a Snowy ram thou (halt behold, 
Prefer him not in hafte, for hujband to thy fold. Dryden. 
An ceconomift; a man that knows and praftifes the me¬ 
thods of frugality and profit. Its Signification is always 
modified by Some epithet implying bad or good.— Ed¬ 
ward I. (howed himielf a right good, hujband ; owner of a 
lordffiip ill-hulbanded. Davies. —I was confidering the 
fliortnefs of life, and what ill hujbands we are of fo tender 
a fortune. Collier. —A tiller of the ground ; a farmer: 
In thofe fields 
The painful hujband plowing up his ground. 
Shall find all fret with ruft, both pikes and Ihields. 
Hakeioill. 
To HUSSBAND, v. a. To Supply with a .hufband : 
If you Shall prove 
This ring was ever her’s, you (hall as eafy 
Prove that I hujbanded her bed in Florence, 
Where yet (he never was. Shakefpeare. 
To manage with frugality: 
If thou be mafter-gunner, Spend not all 
That thou can’ll (peak at once ; but hujband it. 
And give men turns of Speech. Herbert. 
To till; to cultivate the ground with proper management. 
—A farmer cannot hufband his ground, if he fits at a great 
rent. Bacon. 
M V S 
HUS’BANDLESS, adj. Without a hufband : 
A widow, hijbandlefs, Subject to tears; 
A woman, naturally born to fears. Shakefpeare. 
HUS'BANDLY, adj. Frugal, thrifty: 
Bare plots full of galls, if you plow overthwart; 
And compafs it then is a hujbandly part. Tujfer. 
IIUS'BANDMAN, f. One who works in tilling the 
ground. 
HUSBANDRY, f The bufinefs or proleffion of a far¬ 
mer; that Scientific and copious enlargement of the pro¬ 
ducts of nature, which comprehends not only agricul¬ 
ture, or the art of tilling the ground, but the breed and 
improvement of domeftic cattle ; the method of grazing, 
fattening, foi ing, Suckling, and preparing all kinds of live 
stock for market; of increaling their number, weight, 
and growth, for the food and fu dentation of Society ;. and 
for producing, in a more eminent and enlarged degree, 
the quantities and qualities of many raoft valuable raw 
materials, for the ufe, encouragement, and extenfion, of 
our home-manufaftures. 
In a profeffion of Such high antiquity, it is wonderful 
that fo little improvement has been made ; particularly 
when we relied that man was fo early -and impreifively 
admonifhed that this W'as the only permanent mode on 
which he was to depend for bread, and the Support of 
human life. “ In the Sweat of thy face llialt thou eat 
bread; for, curfed is the ground for fhy fake; thorns and 
thiftles fiiall it bring forth to thee, and thou fnalt eat the 
herb of the field.” Gen. iii. 17, &c. Yet, notwithltand- 
ing this original curfe upon the previous Spontaneous fer¬ 
tility of the earth, it is obfervable that where the induftry 
and labour of man have been employed in the improve¬ 
ment and fertilization of the Soil, the thorns and thiftles 
have given place to the golden grain, and plenty has 
Smiled around their dwellings. 
When Such have been the natural refults of cultiva¬ 
tion, when the earth returns an hundred fold for the care 
and attention beftowed upon it, to what can we attribute 
that total negleff which pervades Several kingdoms of the 
world, with refpeCl to any thing that bears the fmalleft 
appearance of agriculture, and, by a total inattention to 
this moft important avocation, Subjecting themfelves to 
the miferies of death, peftilence, and famine ? It is la¬ 
mentable to collect, from the accounts of the moft diftin- 
guilhed and accurate travellers, how very little the Sci¬ 
ence of hulbandry is purified, even in Some of the more 
civilized parts of the world. In England, even till with¬ 
in a few years paft, it does not appear to have met with 
that attention and regard which the importance of the 
Subject fo juftly merits ; but, bn the contrary, was for ages 
left to the conduct and management of the moft obftinate 
and ignorant perfons; who, ever averfe to the arfs of 
improvement, have been proverbially difpofed tofollow but 
one beaten track, in the purfuits of a profeffion, which, 
though perhaps the moft common, is nevertheless found¬ 
ed on the molt difficult department of human knowledge. 
The Romans appear to have confidered a knowledge of 
agriculture as highly becoming the moft eminent men 
amongft them. Cicero, in various paffages of his works, 
beftows the higheft eulogiunis on the purlfiit of it; and in 
his opinion, nothing was more becoming the character of 
a patrician, than the cultivation and management of land. 
The Georgies likewife of Virgil, the molt beautiful and 
deferiptive poem that ever was written, afford ample tes¬ 
timony in favour of the high eftimation in which hus¬ 
bandry was defervedly held by that celebrated and dis¬ 
cerning people. 
It is.with pleafure w.e remark, that the gentlemen of 
this country have now for Some years turned their thoughts 
and attention to this healthful and profitable employ¬ 
ment, by not only embarking in agricultural purfuits 
themielves, but likewife endeavouring by rewards to I10- 
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