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 HUE

Hoiife of Friends. And the twelfth, the Hotife of En mies.

It is popularly, and, as it were, poetically faid, that the Sun has twelve Houfes -, by which are meant the twelve Signs ; tho', in reality, it has only one Sign, viz. Leo : be- fide, the Diviiion of Houfes is made by the Equator, and not the Zodiac.

They begin numbering the Houfes with the Attendant, and pais thence to the Nadir, or Fundus Cceli ; lb as the Vertical Point makes the 10th.

HousE-tee, a Term compounded of Hoiife and Bote, Compenfation ; fignifying Eiiovers, or an Allowance of Timber out of the Lord's Wood, for the Repair and Up- holding a Hoiife or Tenement.

Houfe-bote (lays Coke on Littl. fol. 41. b.) is twofold, viz, EJlaverium tsdificandi £jf ardendi. See Estovers.

HousE-ro£fo'ff£,or HousE-fe-esk;'»p,(from the Saxon Houfe- brice) the robbing or plundering a Man in fome Part of his Hoiife, or Booth or Stall in a Fair or Market ; the Owner, or his Wife, Children, or Servants, being within the fame. See Robbing.

This was Felony by Stat. 23 Hen. 8. and 3 Edit'. 6. But is fince made Felony, though none be within the Hoiife, 39 Fdiz. See Burglary.

House-iw/c's Cloth, is a middle Sort of Linnen Cloth between fine and coarle, for Family Ufes.

HOUSHOLD, the Family or Domeflicks of a Prince or private Perfon. See Family and Domestic.

The Civil Government of the King's Court belongs chiefly to the Lord Steward of the Houjbold. See Steward. — He has Authority over all Officers and Servants of the Kings Hoiife, except thof'e of the Chapel, Chamber, and Stable, who are under the Jurildiclion of the Lord Chamberlain, Mailer of the Horfe, and Dean of the Chapel. See Cham- berlain, Master of the Horfe, and Chapel.

Under the Lord Steward are a Treafurer of the Houpold, Comptroller, Cofferer, Mailer of the Houpold, Clerks of the Green Cloth, g?c. See Treasurer, Comptroller, Cofferer, Green Cloth, &c.

The Troop of the Houpold are the Horfe Guards, Horfe Granadiers, and Foot Guards. See Horse Guard, &c. — The Houpold Troops of France are call'd the Gendarmerie. See Gendarmes.

Houshold T>ays, are four fblemn Feftivals in the Year, when the King, after divine Service, offers a Bezant of Gold to God on the Altar. — Thefe Honpold Days are Chrijfmas, Eafeer, Whitfunday, and All-Saints. See Be- zant. *»

The Honpold Days are part of the twelve Collar and Offering Days. See Collar Tiay.

HOUSING, or Housse, a Cover laid over the Saddle of a Horfe, in order to lave it from the Weather, Dirt,

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The Cavaliers appear'd with their embroider'd Houfengs. — The Word is form'd of the French, Houfje, which iig- nifies rhe fame Thing, tho' it anciently iignify'd a kind of Hood wore by Country People.

Shoe Housing, a Piece of Cloth border'd with a Fringe, oftentimes put round the Saddle, to cover the Croupe, and hang down to the lower Parr of the Belly, to fave the Stockings of thofe that ride without Boots.

•Boot Housing, is a Piece of Stuff fallen'd to the hinder Part of the Saddle, that covers a Horfe's Croupe, either for the Sake of Ornament, or to hide the Horfe's Leannefs, or to fave the Cloaths of the Rider from being daub'd and ibil'd by the Sweat of rhe Horfe.

HOW, among Gardeners. See Hoe.

HOWKER, or Houcre, a Veffel much us'd by the Dutch; built fomething like a Pink, but rigg'd and mailed like an Hoy. See Floating Veffel.

They carry from 50 to 200 Tun ; and with afmall Num- ber of Hands will go to the Eafe-Tndies-

They tack foon and fhort, will fail well, and lie near the Wind ; and live almoll in any Sea.

HOZING of Dogs, the cutting the Balls of their Feet. See Expeditating.

HOT, a fmall Veffel or Bark, whofe Yards are not acrofs, nor the Sails fquare, like thofe of Ships, but the Sails like a Miffen ; fo that Hie can lie nearer than a Veffel with crofs Sails can do.

HOYSE, or Hoise, the Sea Word for haling up any thing into the Ship, (or getting up a Yard, i$c. — Thus they fav, Hoife up the Yard, Hoife the Water in, &c.

HUCKLE "Bone, the Hip Bone. See Hip "Bone.

HUCKSTER, one that fells Provifions, or fmall Wares, by Retail. See Retail.

HUDSON'l-BAY Company. See Company.

HUE and Cry, a Law Phrafe. .- Hue fignifies the Com- plaint of the Party robb'd, &c. and Cry the Purfuit of the Felon on the Highw.ay, by defcribing the Party, and giv- ing Notice to ieveral Conltables from one Town to another.

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who are obllg'cl to call upon the Parifh for Aid in feekmg the Felon till he be apprehended, or, at leall, purlu'd to the Sea-fide. ' *

The Normans had a Purluit with a Cry after Offenders not unlike this 5 which they call'd Clamor do H:ro. See Hard.

Hue is us'd alone, Anno 1 Ed'JO. I. Stat. 2. — In ancient Records it is call'd Hutefmm e? claim: See Vocibe-

RATIO.

HUERS. See Conders,

HUG, or Cornip Hug, a Term us'd in Wrefllin", when one has an Adveriary on his Brcall, and holds him fait there.

HUGUENOTS, an Appellation given to fhe Calviniils ot trance. See Calvinist.

The Name had its firil Rife in 1550 ; but Authors are not agreed as to the Origin and Occalion thereof 'Fafqnier, Menage, &c. give us divers Etymologies, but none of them are ftuck to.

JDuVerdier derives it from John Hits, whofe Opinions the Huguenots chiefly receive, and Guenon, Ape, q. d. Hm's Apes. See Hussites.

Coquille deduces the Name from Hitgues Capet, whofe Right of Succeffion to the Crown, the Calviniils maintain'd agmnlt thole ol the Houfe of Guife, who pretended to be the Succeffors of Charlemaign. '

Others derive it from one Hughes, Hugh, a Sacramenta- rian, who had afl'erted much the lame Doflrines as the Huguenots, under Charles VI.

Others fetch it from the Szvifs Word Henfqmnaiix, i.e. feditious People ; or from Eidgnoffen, i. e. Allies or AlToci* ates in Faith, which is the Opinion Maimbourg inclines to, who hence concludes, that Huguenot is originally no Term of Reproach.

Cafelnau Mauviffiere, in his Memoirs, maintains them to have been thus call'd by the Populace, as being of lefs Value than a little Piece of Money of the Came Name, being a Maille or Farthing, which, in the Time of HughCapeti was call'd Huguenot, q. d. not worth a Farthing.

Others take the Name to have been firil given by way of Derifion to a certain German, who being taken and exa- min'd as to the Confpiracy of Amboife, before the Cardinal de Lorrain, was confounded, and llopp'd fhort in the Be- ginning of his Harangue, which began with Hue ms veni- mus.

But the mod plaufible Opinion is that o{<Pafqitier,<xho ob- ferves, that at Tours the People have a Notion of a Spright or _ Goblin, call'd King Hugon, who flroles about in the Night Time ; whence, as thole of the Religion met chiefly in the Night Time to pray, (£c. they call'd 'cm Huguenots^ q. d. Dilciplcs of King Hugon : For it was at Tours they were firfl denominated.--This Opinion F. TSaniel affents to. HUISS1ER, a French Name for Uper, Sergeant, and 'Beadle. See Usher, Sergeant, and Beadle.

HULKS, are large Vefl'els, having their Gun Decks from 113 to 150 Foot long, and from 31 to 40 Foot broad* — They will carry from 400 to 1000 Tuns. — But their chief Ufe is for letting in Mails into Ships, and the like • Though anciently the Word Hulka feems to lignify a fmall Veffel. s '

HULL of a Ship, is her main Body, without any Malls, Yards, Sails, or Rigging. See Ship.

To hull, or lie a hull, is underllood of a Ship, when, either in a dead Calm, (to preferve her from beating her Sails againfl the Malls) or in a Storm, when Hie cannot car- ry all her Sails ; they are taken in to preferve them ; fo that, nothing but her Mads, Yards, and Riggings are abroad, and her Helm ty'd down to the Lee-Side of the Ship. — In this State fhe will lie eafily under the Sea, if fhe be a good Sailor ; and make her Way one Point before the Beam.

Tofirike a Hull, in the Sea Language, is to lie clofely or obfeurely in the Sea in a Storm, or to tarry for fome Con- fort, bearing no Sail, with the Helm lafh'd a' Lee.

HUMAN, fomething that relates to Man, or the Nature of Man. See Man and Nature.

The human Body is the Subject of Medicine. See Body.

Epicurus and his Followers deny that the Gods concern themfelves with human Affairs. See Epicureans.

Faith is diflinguiih'd into Divine and Human. See Faith.

HUMANITY, the Nature of Man, or that which deno- minates him human.

Neforitis would not allow the Infirmities of Humanity to be attributed to the Deity 5 nor the Attributes of the Deity to Humanity. See Nestorians.

Humanities is alfo us'd, plurally, for the Humani- cres Literd!, i. e. the Study of the Greek and latin Tongues, Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry, and the ancient Poets, Orators, «nd Hiftorians, See Philology;


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