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cry, like the clamour of the Gauls or the fummons of the Highlanders, is taken from town to town and from county to county; and a chain of communication is speedily carried from one end of the kingdom to the other."

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HUELAMO, a town of Spain in New Caftile. HUELBA, a town of Spain, in Seville. HUELGOET, a town of France, in the dep. of Finifterre, miles NW. of Carhaix.

HUELMA, a town of Spain, in Granada. HUEN, or an island in the Baltic, with a vilHUENA, lage, 3 miles from the coaft of Sweden, 8 in circumference, and 14 N. by E. of Copenhagen; famous for Tycho Brahe's obfervatory. See BRAHE. Lon. 12. 38. E. Lat. 55. 54. N.

(1.) HUER, a name given to certain fountains in ICELAND, of a most extraordinary nature; forming at times jets d'eaux of fcalding water 94 feet high and 30 in diameter, creating the molt magnificent gerbes that can be imagined, efpecially when backed by the setting fun. They arife out of cylindrical tubes of unknown depths: near the furface they expand into apertures of a tunnel fhape, and the mouths fpread into a large extent of stalactitical matter, formed of fucceffive fcaly concentric undulations. The playing of thefe ftupendous fpouts is foretold by noifes roaring like the cataract of Niagara. The cylinder begins to fill it rifes gradually to the furface, and gradually increases its height, smoking amazingly, and flinging up great ftones. After attaining its greateft height it gradually finks till it totally difappears. Boiling jets d'eaux and boiling springs are frequent in moft parts of the island. The moft capital is that which is called Geyer or Geyfer, in a plain rifing into small hills, and in the midft of an amphitheatre, bounded by the most magnificent and various-fhaped icy mountains; among which the three-headed Hecla foars pre-eminent. See ICELAND, HECLA, and Plate CLXXXIV. Thefe huers rife in the very fea, and form fcalding fountains amidst the waves. Their distance from land is unknown; but the new volcanic ifle, 12 miles off Reickenes, emitting fire and fmoke, proves that the fubterraneous fires and waters extend to that fpace; for thofe awful effects arife from the united fury of thefe two elements.

(2.) HUER. 1. f. [buer, French, to cry.] One whofe bufinefs is to call out to others. They lie hovering upon the coaft, and are directed by a balker or buer, who ftandeth on the cliff fide, and from thence difcerneth the courfe of the pilchard. Carea's Survey.

HUERMOĆIS, a town of Spain in New Caftile. HUESCA, an ancient town of Spain, in Arragon, with a bishop's fee and an university; feated on the Iffuela, in a foil producing excellent wine. Lon. o. 13. W. Lat. 42. 7. N.

HUESCAR, or GUESCAR, a town of Spain, in Granada, with a fort 60 miles NE. of Granada. Lon. 2. 20. W. Lat. 37. 47. N.

HUESNE, or HUEN. See HUEN. HUESSEN, a town of the Batavian republic, in the dep. of the Rhine, and late prov. of Guelderland: 2 miles S. of Arnheim.

HUET, Peter Daniel, a very learned French writer, born at Caen in Normandy, Feb. 8. 1630. Des Cartes's principles, and Bochart's facred geo

graphy, led him to change his ftudies from the law to thofe of philofophy, mathematics, the languages, and antiquities. He contracted a very strict friendship with Bochart, and accompanied him to Sweden. Q. Chriftina would have engaged him in her fervice; but he, fenfible of her inconftant temper, returned to France. All he brought with him was a copy of a MS. of Origen, which he tranfcribed at Stockholm. He refúfed feveral offers from Chriftina after the abdicated, and from Charles X. her fucceffor. In 1670 M. Boffuet being appointed preceptor to the dauphin, Lewis XIV. chofe M. Huet for his colleague, with the title of fub-preceptor. He formed the plan of the commentaries in ufum Delphini, and directed the execution. From motives of piety, he entered into holy orders at the age of 46. Soon after this, he was prefented to the abbey of Aunay; and in 1685 to the bishopric of Soiffons, which he exchanged for that of Avranches. After ten years, he refigned, and was made abbot of Fontenay near Caen. His love to his native place determined him to fix there. But law-fuits obliged him to go to Paris, and lodge among the Jefuits in the Maison Profeffe, whom he had made heirs to his library. A fevere diftemper weakened his body extremely, but not the vivacity of his genius: he wrote his own life in a very elegant ftyle; and died in 1721, aged 91. He was a man of agreeable converfation, great probity, and immenfe erudition. His principal works are, 1. De claris interpretibus, et de optimo genere interpretandi: 2. Origenis Commentaria; Gr. et Lat. cum notis: 3. Å treatife on the origin of the Romans: 4. Demonftratio evangelica, fol. 5. Quæftiones Alnetana de concordia rationis et fidei: 6. Of the situation of the terrestrial paradife; in French: 7. A hiftory of the commerce and navigation of the ancients, which has been tranflated into English. 8. Commentarius de rebus ad eum pertinentibus: 9. Huetiana: 10. Latin and Greek verfes, &c.

HUETERN, a town of Bavaria, in Passau. HUETINBERG, a town of Carinthia. HUETTA, a town of Spain in New Caftile, 67 m. E. of Madrid. Lon. 1. 55. W. Lat. 40. 22. N. *HUFF. n. f. [from hove, or hoven, swelled: he is buffed up by distempers. So in fome provinces we ftill fay the bread huffs up, when it begins to heave or ferment: buff, therefore, may be ferment. To be in a huff is then to be in a ferment, as we now fpeak.] 1. Swell of fudden anger or arrogance.→ Quoth Ralpho, honour's but a word To fwear by, only in a lord; In others it is but a buff,

To vapour with inftead of proof.
His frowns kept multitudes in awe,'
Before the blufter of whole buff
All hats, as in a storm, flew off.

Hudibras.

Hudibras.

We have the apprehenfions of a change to keep a check upon us in the very buff of our greatness. L'Etrange A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the buff about his extraction. L'Eftrangé.-No man goes about to enfnare or circumvent another in a paffion, to lay trains, and give fecret blows in a prefent buff. South. 2. A wretch swelled with a falfe opinion of his own value.-As for you, colonel huff-cap, we fhall try before a civil magif trate who's the greater plotter. Dryden.-Lewd

fhallow.

fhallow-brained buffs make atheifm and contempt -We hug deformities, if they bear our names. of religion the fole badge and character of wit. Glanville.South.

(1.)* To HUFF. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To fwell; to puff.-In many wild birds the diaphragm may easily be buffed up with air, and blown in at the windpipe. Gresu. 2. To hector; to treat with infolence and arrogance, or brutality. The commiffioner at Magdalen college faid to Dr Hough, You must not presume to buff us. Eachard. (2.) To HUFF. v. n. To blufter; to storm; to bounce; to fwell with indignation or pride. A buffing, thining, flatt'ring cringing coward, A canker worm of peace, was rais'd above him. Otway. Hudibras. Huffing to cowards, fawning to the brave, To knaves a fool, to cred'lous fools a knave. Rofcommon. -This fenfeless arrogant conceit of theirs made them buff at the doctrine of repentance, as a thing below them. South.

A thief and juftice, fool and knave, A buffing officer and slave.

Now what's his end? O charming glory fay! What, a fifth act to crown his huffing play?

Dryden.

What a small pittance of reafon and truth is mixed with those huffing opinions they are fwelled with. Locke-When Peg received John's message, the buffed and ftormed like the devil. Arbuthnot. * HUFFER. n. S. [from huff.] A-blufterer; a bully.

Nor have I hazarded my art, To be expos'd i' th' end to fuffer, By fuch a braggadocio buffer.

Hudibras.

HUFFINGEN, a town of Suabia, 4 m. NNW. of Furstenburg, and 17 of Schaffhausen.

*HUFFISH. adj. [from buff.] Arrogant; infolent; hectoring.

HUFFISHLY. adv. [from huffish.] With arrogant petulance; with bullying blufter.

* HUFFISHNESS. . . Petulance; arrogance; noify blufter.

* HUG. n.f. [from the noun.] 1. Clofe embrace.

Why these close bugs? I owe my fhame to him. Gay. 2. A particular gripe in wrestling, called a Cor. nifh bug.

*To HUG. v. a. [begian, Saxon, to hedge, to inclofe.] 1. To prefs, clofe in an embrace.He bewept my fortune,

And bugg'd me in his arms.

Shak.

Admire yourself,

And, without rival, bug your darling book.
Rofcommon.

Though they know that the flatterer knows the falfehood of his own flatteries, yet they love the impoftor, and with both arms bug the abuse. South.

Mark with what joy he bugs the dear difcovery! Rose. 3. To hold faft.-Age makes us moft fondly bug and retain the good things of life, when we have the leaft profpect of enjoying them. Atterburg. 4. To gripe in wrestling.

* HUGE. adj. [boogh, high, Dutch.] 1. Vaft; immenfe.-Let the eftate of the people of God, when they were in the houfe of bondage, and their manner of serving God in a strange land, be compared with that which Canaan and Jerufalem did afford; and who feeth out what huge difference there was between them? Hooker.-This space of earth is fo huge, as that it equalleth in greatness not only Afia, Europe, and África, but Âmerica. Abbot. 2. Very great.

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Who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the fea? 2. Greatly; very much.-I am hugely bent to believe, that whenever you concern yourselves in our affairs it is for our good. Savift.

* HUGENESS. n. J. [from huge.] 1. Enormous bulk; greatnefs. 2. Utmoft extent. Not in ufe. My mistress exceeds in goodness the bugenefs of your unworthy thinking. Shak.

HUGGERMUGGER. 2. f. [corrupted perhaps from bug er mocker, or hug in the dark. Morcker in Danish is darkness, whence our mur-What would not he do now to bug the creaky. It is written by Sir Thomas More, boker moture that had given him so admirable a ferenade. L'Eftrange.

Ev'n in that urn their brother they confefs, And bug it in their arms, and to their bofom prefs. Dryden. -King Xerxes was enamoured upon an oak, which he would bug and kifs. Harvey. 2. To fondle; to treat with tendernefs.

I, under fair pretence of friendly ends,
And well-plac'd words of glozing courtesy,
Baited with reafons not unplaufible,
Win me into the easy hearted man,
And bug him into fnares.

ker. Hoker, in Ghaucer, is peevish, crofsgrained, of which moker may be only a ludicrous reduplication. Hooke is likewife in German a corner, and moky is in English dark. I know not how to determine.] Secrecy; bye-place.

Now hold in huggermugger in their hand,
And all the reft do rob of goods and land.
Hubberd's Tale.

But if I can but find them out,
Where e'er th' in buggermugger lurk,

I'll make them rue their handy work. Hudib.
-There's a diftinction betwixt what's done open-
Milton. ly and barefaced, and a thing that's done in bug-

germugger,

germugger, under a feal of fecrecy and concealment. L'Etrange.

HUGH CAPET. See CAPET, and FRANCE, S

20, 21.

(1.) HUGHES, John, an ingenious and polite writer, born in 1677. In the earliest parts of his youth, he cultivated poetry, drawing, and mufic, in each of which he made great progrefs; but followed these and other ftudies only as agreeable amusements, under frequent confinement on account of bad health. Lord Chancellor Cowper made him secretary for the commiffioners of the peace, which he held till 1719, when he died on the night in which his tragedy of The Siege of Damafcus was first acted. He was then 42. He tranflated Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead, Vertot's revolutions of Portugal, and the letters of Abelard and Eloifa. He gave a very accurate edition of Spencer's works, with his life, gloffary, and remarks; and wrote feveral papers in the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. Mr Duncombe, who married his fifter, collected his poems and effays in 2 vols 12mo, in 1735.

(2.) HUGHES, Jabez, younger brother of the preceding, was born in 1685. He published, in 1714, a translation of Claudian's Rape of Proferpine, and Lucan's Sextus and Erictho: alfo Suetonius's XII Cæfars, and fome of Cervantes's novels. He died in 1731.

HUGHLY. See HOOGLY, N° 1, and 2. HUGONIA, in botany: A genus of the decandria order, belonging to the monadelphia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking with thofe of which the order is doubtful. The carolla is pentapetalous: the fruit is a plum with a ftriated bernel.

HUGONOTS, or way of contempt to the

an appellation given by

HUGUENOTS, reformed or Proteftant Calvinifts of France. The name had its first rife in 1560; but authors are not agreed as to the origin and occafion thereof: One of the two following feems to be the leaft forced derivations. One of the gates of the city of Tours is called the gate Fourgon, by corruption from feu Hugon, i. e. the late Hugon. This Hugon was once count of Tours, according to Eginhardus, and was a very wicked man, fo that after his death he was fuppofed to walk about in the nighttime, beating all he met with: this tradition Thuanus mentions in his hiftory. Davila and others pretend, that the nickname of Huguenots was first given to the French Proteftants, because they used to meet in the night-time in fubterraneous vaults near this gate of Hugon; and what feems to countenance this opinion is, that they were first called Huguenots at Tours. Others fay that the leaguers give this name to the reformed, because they were for keeping the crown upon the head of the royal line of Hugh Capet; whereas the leaguers were for giving it to the houfe of Guife, as defcended from Charlemagne. Others derive it from a faulty French pronunciation f the German word eidgnoffen, fignifying confederates, originally applied to that valiant part of the citizens of Geneva, who entered into an alliance with the Swifs cantons, to maintain their liberties againft the tyrannical attempts of Charles III. duke of Savoy. These confederates were called Eignots,

whence Huguenots. The perfecution which the Huguenots underwent has fcarce its parallel in civil or ecclefiaftical history: though they obtained a peace from Henry III. in 1576, it was of fhort continuance; and their fufferings, mitigated by the famous edict of Nantes, granted to them in 1598 by Henry IV. were again renewed, after the revocation of this edict, by Lewis XIV. in 1685. See DRAGOONING and FRANCE, § 40-46.

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*HUGY. adj. [See HUGE.] Vaft; great; huge. Not in ufe. This bugy rock one finger's force apparently will move. Carew's Survey of Cornwal. HUIDE, a town of Norway.

HUILLÉCOURT, a town of France, in the dep. of Upper Marne, 3 miles SW. of Bourmont. HUIS, a town of France, in the dep. of Ain, 2 miles W. of Belley.

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HUISSEN, a town of Germany, in the late duchy of Cleves, now annexed to the French republic, and included in the dep. of the Roer; 10 miles NNW. of Cleves.

* HUKE. n. f. [buque, Fr.] A cloak.-As we were thus in conference, there came one that feemed to be a messenger in a rich buke, Bacon's New Atlantis.

HULFENBERG, a town of Germany in Eichsfeld, 8 miles S. of Duderstadt.

(1.) * HULK. n. f. [bulcke, Dutch; bule, Saxon.] 1. The body of a ship.-There's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux ftuff in him; you have not seen a bulk better stuffed in the hold. Shakespeare.-The cuftom of giving the colour of the fea to the bulks, fails, and mariners of their fpy-boats, to keep them from being discovered, came from the Veneti. Arbuthnot.The Argo's bulk will tax,

And scrape her pitchy fides for wax. Shak. The footy bulk

Steer'd fluggish on.

Thomfon

2. Any thing bulky and unwieldy. This fenfe is ftill retained in Scotland: as, a bulk of a fellow.And Henry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk fir John,

Is prifoner to your fon.

Shakespeare.

(2.) A HULK is an old ship of war, fitted with an apparatus, to fix or take out the mafts of the king's fhips, as occafion requires. The maft is extremely high, and properly ftrengthened by shrouds and stays, to fecure the fheers, which ferve, as the arm of a crane, to hoist out or in the mafts of any fhip lying alongfide. They are composed of feveral long mafts, whofe heels reft upon the fide of the hulk, and having their heads declining outward from the perpendicular, fo as to hang over the veffel whofe mafts are to be fixed or difplaced. The tackles, which extend from the head of the maft to the fheer-heads, are intended to pull in the latter towards the mast-head, particularly when they are charged with the weight of a maft after it is raised out of any fhip, which is performed by ftrong tackles depending from the Theer-heads. The effort of thefe tackles is produced by two capfterns, fixed on the deck for this purpose.

(3.) HULK fignifies alfo any old veffel laid afide as unfit for further fervice. It is probably derived from the saxaðis, or veffels of burthen, of the ancient Greciano.

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