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till me do. — Proceed then to bring her to the Lure, by giving her to fame Pcrfon to hold, and calling her with a Lure, well garni fried with Meat on both Sides, and give her a Bit : TJfe her to this for fix or feven Days ; after which tempt her to come gradually further and further off, to the Lure, waving it and calling it round your Head, &c and if flic come to it roundly, reward her. In three or four Days mere call her to your Lure, well garnifhed as above, as far as 'tis poffible for her to fee or hear you j and fet her Joofe from all her Furniture.

The Hawk thus mann'd, rcclaiin'd and lured, you may po with her into the Fields 5 and whittle her oif your Filt, to fee whether fbe will rake out or no. If fhe mount and fly round you in Circles, as a good Hawk ought to do 5 after two or three Turns call to her with your Voice, and fling out the Lure about your Head, and upon her {looping, or coming to it, give her a Chicken, or pidgcon, and let her kill and feed thereon. — ■ Being thus far ini- ' tiated, give her hYft Stones, every Evening, to prepare her Body for Callings $ and then Cartings to cleanfe and fcour her Body, and make her eager. — This Courfe continue till fhe have have endewed and mewted enough to enter upon Bufinefs.

If the Hawk be intended for fome particular Sort of Game, let her Lure be a Rcfcmblance of that Sort of Game $ and make a Practice of frequently feeding and re- warding her thereon j or on a Train of the fame Kind 5 calling her when feeding, as if flic were call'd to the Lure. Add, that it may be proper to feed her in fuch like Places as thofe her Game is chiefly to be found in.

To enter a Hawk, it may be convenient to take a well quarried Hawk, and let her ftoop a Fowl, on Brook or Plafh 5 this done, reward, hood and fet her ; and taking the young Hawk, go half a Bow-fhot up the Wind, loofe her Hood, and fofrly whiffle her off the Fift, till fhc have reused or mewted 5 then let her fly with her Head into the Wind 5 and when fhe is at a proper Height, let go a Fowl for her to ftoop and trufs. See further under the 'Articled alcon. HANKWiT, or Hancwite, from the Saxon hangar^ i. c. fufpendere, to hang, and wiue, MulBa, Punifhment, is a Liberty grantccT to a Man, whereby he is quit of a Felon, or Thief, hanged without a Judgment, or efcaped out of Cuftody. — We ai/b read it interpreted to be Quit de laron pendu fans SerjefJits le Roy, i. e. without a legai Trial. — And elfewhere, lilulBa pro latrone prater juris exigentiam Jufpenfo vel elapfo.

Some fufpecx that the Word may ;J.tfb fignifie a Liberty, whereby a Lord challengcth the Forfeiture due for him who hangs himfelf within the Lord's Fee. See Bloodwit. It feems to be fo in Confuetzid. ex 'Domefday, by Dr. Gale, viz. Hangenwithnm faciens in Civitate .10 S. d.ibit. HAWSER, or Halser, belonging to a Ship, 1.5 a Rope confining of three Strands ; being a Kind of little Cable, fervmg for many Ufes on Board, as to fatten the .Main and Fore-fhrcuds, to warp a Ship over a Bar, &c. See Rope, Cable.

HAWSES, in a Ship, are two round Holes under her Flead, through which the Cables pafs, when ffie is at Anchor. See Cable and Anchor.

A Sold Hawfe, is when the Hole is high above the Water. A Frcft Haisofe, when there is Reafon to fufpecf. the Cable may be fretted in thofe Holes.

Burning in the Hawfe, is when the Cable endures an extraordinary Strcfs.

Clearing the Hawfe, is the untwilting of two Cables, which being let out at different Hawfes, are twilled about one another.

Frcjbrag the Hawfe, is when new Pieces are laid upon the Cable in the Hawfe.

Riding upon the Hawfe, is when any weighty Sub- fiance lies acrofs, or falls directly before the Hawfe.

HAY, Hay a, or Haye, a Fence or Inclofure, form'd of Rails j wherewith fome Forefts, Parks, &c. were an- tiently furrounded.

Sometimes the Word is ufed for the Park it felf : And fometimes for an Hedge, or hedged Ground. — Uni-verfls. Capitulum B. 'Petri Ebor. concejfiffe ad fir mam tot am Hayam nojlram de Langerath, cum folo ejttfdem Hayas, Sruera, Marifco, & omnibus cdiis pertin. Reddendo inde annuatim nobis tempore pinguedinis unum daraum, & fermifona tempore imam damam, &c.

HAYBOOT, in our antient Cuftoms, from the Saxon Haig, Hedge, and Boue; a Mulct or Recompence for a Hedge-breaking 5 or rather, a Right to take Wood necef- fary for making Hedges, either by Tenant for Life, or for Years, though • not exprefled in the Grant or Leafe. — 'Tis mentioned in the Mon. 2 "Tom, pag. 134, & concede e't ut de bofco meo Heybot, Sec. ■ — In the fame Place, Husbote iignifies a right to take Timber to repair the Houfe.j

HAYS, a particular Kind of Nets for the taking of Rabbets, Hares, £?c.

HAYWARD, or Haward, a Keeper of the common Herd of Cattle of a Town $ who is to look that they neither break nor crop the Hedges of inclofed Grounds ; and is fworn in the Lord's Court, for the due Performance of his Office. See Hay.

HAZARD. See Chance and Gaming. HEAD, Caput, the uppermoil, or foremoit Part of the Body of an Animal. See Body and Animal.

Pliny, and other of the antient Naruraliils, fpeak of a Nation of People without Heads, call'd Blemmyes. See Blemmyes.

We have Accounts in modern Geographers and Travel- lers, of People whofe Heads are as flat as the Hand j it being the Cuftom among them to flatten their Children's Heads, when new Born, by pafling them thro' a Prefs, or laying them between two Planks with a confiderablc "Weight thereon. — ■ They are faid to be the Inhabitants of the Province Cofaquas, on the great River of the Amazons, in South America.

Anatomies account the Head of Man, the firft or up- petmoit Venter $ being that which comes laft in Order of Diffection, by Reafon its Contents are not fo fubjecl: to Corruption. See Venter,

The Head is divided into two Parts .* The \(l, the Cal- varia, or Scalp, being that Part cover'd with "Hair. See Hair.

The zd, fmooth, or without Hair, call'd the Face, or Vifage, ; by the Latins Fultus, and by the Greeks Tro- fopwn, q. d. looking forward. See Face.

The former is fubdivided into four ; viz. the Fronr, or Forehead, which is reputed the molt, humid, call'd by Phyficians the Sinciput, q. d. fummum Caput. See Front and Sinciput.

The hind, or Back Part, call'd Occiput $ by the Greeks Inion, by Reafon all the Nerves, which among them are call'd Jnes, arife herefrom. See Occiput and Nerve.

The middle, or Top-part, call'd the Crown of the Head, and by Anatomifts Vertex, a Vertendo, by rea- fon the Hair turns round there. See Vertex.

Laftly, the Sides are call'd the 'Temples, Tempora, as being the Places where the Hair firft begins to turn grey, and difcover the Age. See Temple.

The Bone, or Bafis of the Head, is call'd by one general Name Skull, or Cranium 5 confuting of feveral Parts, or leffer Bones. See Cranium.

The Bone of the Fore-head, is call'd Os frontis, or Pujpis, or Coronate, or Verecundum, whence impudent Perfons are faid to be frontlefs. See Os Frontis, &c.

The Bone of the Scalp is call'd Os Jincipitis, or Bregma. See Bregma, or.

The Bone of the Back of the Head Os Occipitis, or P*ror<£. See Os Occipitis, &c.


 * And thofe of the Temples, Temporalia, or Offa Tcm-

poris. See Os Temporis.

Thefe Bones are connected or joyn'd together ' by Sutures. See Suture.

In the Head are feated the principal Organs of Scnfe ; v?z. the Bye, Ear, &c. And in it is likewife the Brain, invefled with its Meninges 5 the fuppofed Seat of the Soul.' See Sense, Brain, &c.

The Head is moved by ten Pair of Mufcles, viz. the Par Splsnium, Complcxura, ReBum majus externum, ReBum nSinus externum, Obliqimm Superius, Obliquum Jnferius, Jifafoideujn, ReBum internum majus, ReBum internum minus, and ReBum Laterale. See each defcribed under its refpe^ive Article.

The Orientals vcover the Head with a Turban, or a Cap. — The Occidentals with a Hat, &c. See Turban, Hat and Cap.

Kings, on folemn Occafions, wear the Crown on the Head ; Bifhops the Mitre, &c. See Crown, Mitre, £$>. The antient Cavaliers wore Helmets. — The Soldiers, Casks. See Helmet and Cash.

Head, is alfo ufed for the Top of a Tree, or other Plant. See Tree and Pruwing.

Head, is alfo applied to the Extremity of a Bone. See Bone.

When a Bone has a round Tip, or End, which ad- vances, or projects forward, whether in the Way of an Apophyfis or Epiphyfis, it is call'd the Head of the Bone. See Apophysis, &c.

If its Rife, or Origin, be {lender, and it enlarge by Degrees, it is call'd the Neck. See Neck.

If it terminate in a Point, it is call'd Corone, Corvus, or Coracoides, as refembling a Crow's Bill. See Corone,

CORACOIDZS, &C.

When the Head is flat, they call it Condylus, or double Head-, as in the Extremities of the Bones of the Fingers. See Condylus.

Head, is alfo uftd fo,r the Extreme of a Mufde, which is faftcn'd or inferted into the Stable-Bone, or

the