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These conceffions, however, he could not be prevailed upon to make; and that he might no longer be under obligations to act as he was directed by others, he refused to enter into any engagements upon fubfcription. After having tried a few more operas at Covent Garden without fuccefs, he introduced another species of mufic, called oratorios, which he thought better fuited to the nativė gravity of an English audience. But as the fubjects of thefe pieces were taken from facred hiftory, it was by fome thought a profanation to perform them at a playhoufe. From this prejudice, the oratorios met, with little fuccefs; and in 1741, Handel found his affairs in fuch a bad fituation, that he quitted England, and went to Dublin, where he was received in a manner fuit able to his great merit. His performing his ora torio called the Meffiah, for the benefit of the city-prifon, brought him into univerfal favour. In nine months he had brought his affairs into a better fituation, and on his return to England in 1742, he found the public more favourably difpofed. His oratorios were now performed with great applaufe: his Meffiah became a favourite performance; and Handel, with a generous humanity, determined to perform it annually for the benefit of the foundling hofpital, which at that time was only supported by private benefactions. In 1743, he had a return of his paralytic disorder; and in 1751 became quite blind by a gutta ferena. This laft misfortune funk him into the deepeft defpondency; but at last he became refigned, after having without any relief undergone fome very painful operations. Finding it impoffible to manage his oratorios alone, he was affifted by Mr Smith, with 'whofe aid they were continued till within 8 days of his death. During the latter part of his life, his mind was often difordered; yet at times it appears to have refumed its full vigour, and he compofed several fongs, chorufes, &c. From October 1758, his health declined very faft, and his appetite, which had been remarkably keen, failed. On the 6th April, 1759, his laft oratorio was performed, at which he was prefent, and he died on the 14th. On the 20th he was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. With regard to his character, he was a great epicure; in his temper he was very haughty, but was never guilty of mean actions. His pride was uniform; he was not by turns a tyrant and a flave. He appears to have had a moft extragavant love for independence; infomuch, that he would, for the fake of liberty, do things the moft prejudicial to his own intereft. He was liberal even when poor, and did not forget his former friends when he was rich. His mufical powers are beft expreffed by Arbuthnot's reply to Pope, who seriously asked his opinion of him as a musician; "Conceive (faid he) the high. eft you can of his abilities, and they are much beyond any thing you can conceive."

(2.) HANDEL, COMMEMORATION OF, a mufical exhibition inftituted in 1784, a century after his birth, and the grandest of the kind ever attempted in any nation. Of the rife and progrefs of the defign, together with the manner in which the first celebration was executed, an accurate and authentic detail is given by Dr Burney in the 4th

vol. of his Hiftory of Mufio. "Few circumstances (fays the Dr) will perhaps more astonish veteran musicians, than to be informed, that there was but one general rehearsal for each day's performance; an indifputable proof of the high ftate of cultivation, to which practical music is at prefent arrived in this country; for if good performers had not been found ready made, a dozen rehearfals would not have been sufficient to make them fo. At this general rehearsal above 500 perfons found means to obtain admiffion, in spite of every endeavour to fhut out all but the performers, for fear of interruption, and perhaps of failure, in the first attempts at incorporating and consolidating fuch a numerous band, confitting not only of all the regulars, both native and foreign, which the capital could furnish, but of all the irregulars, that is, dilettanti, and provincial musicians of character, who could be muftered, many of whom had never heard or feen each other before. This intrufion fuggefted the idea of turning the eagernefs of the public to fome profitable account for the charity, by fixing the price of admiffion to half a guinea for each perfon. The public did not manifeft great eagernefs in fecuring tickets till after this rehearsal, Friday May 21, which astonished even the performers themselves by its correctnefs and effects. But fo interefting did the undertaking become by this favourable rumour, that from the great demand of tickets it was found neceffary to close the fubfcription. Many families, as well as as individuals, were attracted to the capital by its celebrity; and it was never remembered to have been fo full, except at the coronation of his prefent majefty. Many performers came, unfolicited, from the remoteft parts of the kingdom, at their own expense: fome of them, however, were afterwards reimbursed, and had a fmall gratuity, in confideration of the time they were kept from their families by the two unexpected additional performances. Foreigners, particularly the French, must be much astonished at fo numerous a band moving in such exact meafure, without the affiftance of a Coryphæus to beat the time, either with a roll of paper, or a noify baton, or a truncheon. Rouffeau fays, that the more time is beaten, the lefs it is kept;' and it is certain, that when the measure is broken, the fury of the mufical general, increafing with the disobedience and confufion of his troops, he becomes more violent, and his ftrokes and gefticulations more ridiculous, in proportion to their dif order. As this commemoration is not only the firft inftance of a band of fuch magnitude being affembled together, but of any band, at all numerous, performing in a fimilar fituation, without the affiftance of a manuductor to regulate the meafure, the performances in Westminster abbey may be fafely pronounced no less remarkable for the multiplicity of voices and inftruments employed, than for accuracy and precifion. When all the wheels of that huge machine, the orchestra, were in motion, the effect refembled clock-work in every thing but want of feeling and expreffion. And as the power of gravity and attraction in bodies is proportioned to their mafs and denfity, so it seems as if the magnitude of this band had commanded and impelled adhefion and obedience beyond that

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which the hand preffes the bridle to hinder in crease of speed.-Ovid, with all his sweetness, has as little variety of numbers and found as he he is always upon a hand-gallop, and his verse runs upon carpet ground. Dryden.

of any other of inferior force. The pulfations in every limb, and ramifications of veins and arteries in an animal, could not be more reciprocal, ifochronous, and under the regulation of the heart, than the members of this body of muficians under that of the conductor and leader. The totality of found feemed to proceed from one voice and one inftrument; and its powers produced not only new and exquifite fenfations in judges and lovers of the art, but were felt by those who never received pleasure from mufic before. These effects run the risk of being doubted by all but thofe who heard them, and the present description of being pronounced fabulous, if it should furvive the prefent generation.”

* HANDER. n. /. [from band.] Tranfmitter; conveyor in fucceffion.

They would affume, with wond'rous art, Themselves to be the whole, who are but part, Of that vast frame the church; yet grant they

were

The banders down, can they from thence infer A right t' interpret? Or would they alone, Who brought the prefent, claim it for their own? Dryden. HANDFAST. 1. f. [hand and faft.] Hold; cuftody. Obfolete.-If that fhepherd be not in bandfaft, let him fly. Shak.

HAND-FASTING, an ancient custom which for merly took place at an annual fair, in the parifh of Eskdalemuir in Dumfries-fhire, thus defcribed by the Rev. MrW. Brown in his Statistical Account of that parish: "At that fair it was the cuftom for the unmarried perfons of both fexes, to choose a companion with whom they were to live till that time next year. If they were pleased with each other at that time, then they continued together for life; if not, they separated, and were free to make another choice as at firft. The fruit. of their connection, if there were any, was always attached to the difaffected perfon. A prieft, whom they named Book i' bosom, (because he carried in his bofom a bible, or a register of the marriages) came from time to time to confirm the marriages." Mr Brown traces this custom from the Romans. See Sir J. Sinclair's Stat. Acc. vol. xii. p. 615.

* HANDFUL. n. f. {band and full.] 1. As much as the hand can gripe or contain.-I faw a country gentleman at the fide of Rofamond's pond, pulling a bandful of oats out of his pocket, and gathering the ducks about him, Addif. Freeholder. 2. A palm; a hand's breadth; four inches.-Take one veffel of filver and another of wood, each full of water, and knap the tongs together about an bandful from the bottom, and the found will be more refounding from the veffel of filver than that of wood. Bacon.

The peaceful fcabbard where it dwelt, The rancour of its edge had felt; For of the lower end two handful It had devour'd, it was fo manful. Hudibras. 3. A fmall number or quantity.-He could not, with fuch a handful of men, and without cannon, propose reasonably to fight a battle. Clarendon. 4. As much as can be done.-Being in poffeffion of the town, they had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Raleigh.

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* HAND-GALLOP, n.f. A low eafy gallop, in

*HAND-GUN. 2. f. A gun wielded by the hand.-Guns have names given them, fome from ferpents or ravenous birds, as culverines or colu brines; others in other refpects, as cannons, demicannons, hand-guns, and muskets. Camden.

HANDICRAFT. 2. f. [band and craft.] 1. Ma nual occupation; work performed by the hand. -Particular numbers of convents have excellent mechanical geniufes, and divert themselves with painting, fculpture, architecture, gardening, and feveral kinds of bandicrafts. Addison, 2. A man who lives by manual labour.

The cov'nants thou fhalt teach by candlelight,

When puffing fmiths, and ev'ry painful trade Of handicrafts, in peaceful beds are laid. Dryden. ( -The nurferies for children of ordinary gentlemen and bandicrafts are managed after the fame man. ner. Gulliver's Trav.

* HANDICRAFTSMAN. n. f. [handicraft and man.] A manufacturer; one employed in manual occupation.-O miferable age! virtue is not regarded in bandicraftsmen. Shak.-He has fimply the best wit of any handicraftsman in Athens. Shak.-The principal bulk of the vulgar natives are tillers of the ground, free fervants, and handicraftsmen; as smiths, mafons, and carpenters. Bacon. The profanenefs and ignorance of handi craftsmen, fmall traders, fervants, and the like, are to a degree very hard to be imagined greater. Swift.-It is the landed man that maintains the merchant and fhopkeeper, and handicraftsmen. Swift.

*HANDILY. adv. [from handy.] With skill; with dexterity.

*HANDINESS. 7. f. [from handy.] Readinefs; dexterity.

*HANDIWORK. n. f. [handy and work.] Work of the hand; product of labour; manufacture.In general they are not repugnant unto the natural will of God, which witheth to the works of his own hands, in that they are his own handiwork, all happiness; although perhaps, for some special caufe in our own particular, a contrary determination have seemed more convenient. HookerAs proper men as ever trod upon neats-leather have gone upon my handiwork. Shak.-The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firma. ment fheweth his handiwork. Pfalms.-He parted with the greatest bleffing of human nature for the handiwork of a taylor. L'Eftrange.

* HANDKERCHIEF. n. f. [band and kerchief] A piece of filk or linen ufed to wipe the face, or cover the neck.-She found her fitting in a chair, in one hand holding a letter, in the other her handkerchief, which had lately drunk up the tears of her eyes. Sidney. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this avouches the fhepherd's fon, who has not only his innocence, but a handkerchief and rings of his, that Paulina knows. Shak.-The Romans did not make use of handkerchiefs, but of the lacinia or border of the garment, to wipe their face. Arbuthnot.

* HANDLE,

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HANDLE. n. f. [handle, Sax.] 1. That part of any thing by which it is held in the hand; a haft,

No hand of blood and bone

Can gripe the facred handle of our fceptre, Unless he do profane, steal, or ufurp. Shak. -Fortune turneth the handle of the bottle, which is easy to be taken hold of; and after the belly, which is hard to grafp. Bacon.-There is nothing but hath a double handle, or at leaft we have two hands to apprehend it. Taylor.-A carpenter, that had got the iron work of an axe, begged only fo much wood as would make a handle tó it. L'Estr,

Of bone the handles of my knives are made, Yet no ill tafte from thence affects the blade, Or what I carve; nor is there ever left An unfav'ry haut-gouft from the haft. Dryden. A beam there was, on which a beechen pail Hung by the handle on a driven nail. Dryden. 3. That of which ufe is made.-They overturned him in all his interefts by the fure but fatal handle of his own good nature. South.

To HANDLE. v. a. [handelen, Dutch, from band.] 1. To touch; to feel with the hand.— The bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that whilft they remain between them, they hinder the approach of the part of our hands that prefs them. Locke. 2. To manage; to wield.That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. Shak. 3. To make familiar to the hand by frequent touching.-An incurable fhynefs is the general vice of the Irifh horfes, and is hardly ever feen in Flanders, becaufe the hardnefs of the win ters forces the breeders there to house and handle their colts fix months every year. Temple. 4. To treat; to mention in writing or talk.

He left nothing fitting for the purpose Untouch'd, or flightly handled in discourse.

Shak. Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,

Shak.

Thou handleft in thy difcourfe. Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular, and labouring to follow the rules of abridgment. 2. Mac.-Of a number of other like inftances we fhall fpeak more, when we handle the communication of founds. Bacon.-By Guidus Ubaldus, in his treatise, for the explication of this inftrument, the subtleties of it are largely and excellently handled. Wilkin's Dadalus. -In an argument, handled thus briefly, every thing cannot be faid. Atterbury. 5. To deal with; to practife. They that handle the law know me not. Jer. ii. 8. 6. To treat well or ill.

Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd! How wert thou handled, being prifoner? Shak. They were well enough pleased to be rid of an enemy that had handled them so ill. Clarendon, 7. To practise upon; to transact with.-Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you shall fee how I'll handle her. Shak.

* HANDLESS. adj. [band and less.] Without a hand.

Speak, my Lavinia, what accurfed hand Hath made thee handless?

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She gave the knight great thanks in little fpeech,

And faid the would his handmaid poor remain. Fairfax. I will never fet politicks againft ethicks, efpe cially for that true ethicks are but as a handmaid to divinity and religion. Bacon.-

Heav'n's youngest teamed ftar Hath fix'd her polifh'd car,

Her fleeping Lord with Eandmaid lamp attending. Milton Love led them on and faith, who knew them beft,

Thy handmaids, clad them o'er with purple beams

And azure wings, that up they flew fo dreft, And speak the truth of thee on glorious themes Before the judge. Milton.

Those of my family their master slight, Grown despicable in my handmaid's fight.

Sandys

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from fmall beginnings great;

Thus fishes firft to fhipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Dryden

-Since he had plac'd his heart upon wisdom, health, wealth, victory, and honour should always wait on her as her handmaids. Addison.

Then criticism the mufe's handmaid prov❜d, Todrefs her charms, and make hermore belov❜d, Pope *HANDMILL. n. f. [hand and mill.] A mill moved by the hand.

Oft the drudging afs is driv'n with toil; Returning late, and loaden home with gain › Of barter'd pitch, and handmills for the grain, Dryden.

HANDO, a country of Africa, in Quoja. * HANDSAILS. . . Sails managed by the hand.-The feamen will neither ftand to their bandfails, nor fuffer the pilot to fteer. Temple.

* HANDSAW. n. f. Saw manageable by the hand. My buckler cut through and through, and my fword hack'd like a handfas. Shak.-To perform this work, it is neceffary to be provided with a ftrong knife and a small handfaw. Mortimer.

* HANDSEL. n. f. [hansel, a first gift, Dutch.] The first act of ufing any thing; the first act of fale. It is now not used, except in the dialect of trade.-The apostles term it the first pledge of our inheritance, and the bandsel or earnest of that which is to come. Hooker.

Thou art joy's bandfel; heav'n lies flat in thee, Subject to every mounter's bended knee. Herb. To HANDSEL. V. a. To use or do any thing the first time.

In timorous deer he handfels his young paws, And leaves the rugged bear for firmer claws. Cowley,

Shak

His mangled myrmidons,

I'd show you

Nofelefs, handlefs, hackt and clipt, come to him,

Crying on Hector.

Shak.

How eafy 'tis to die, by my example, And handfel fate before you,

Dryden,

HANDS

HANDS OFF. A vulgar phrafe for keep off; forbear.-They cut a ftag into parts; but as they were entering upon the dividend, bands off, says the lion. L'Etrange.

* HANDSOME. adj. [handfaem, Dutch, ready, dexterous.] 1. Ready; gainly; convenient.-For a thief it is so bandsome, as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenfer. 2. Beautiful with dignity; graceful. A great man entered by force into a peafant's house, and, finding his wife very bandfome, turned the good man out of his dwelling. Addifon. 3. Elegant; graceful.-That eafinefs and bandsome address in writing is hardest to be attained by perfons bred in a meaner way. Felton. 4. Ample; liberal: as, a bandsome for tune. 5. Generous; noble: as, a handsome action.

To HANDSOME. v. a. [from the adjective.] To render elegant or neat.—

Him all repute

For his device in handsoming a fuit; To judge of lace he hath the belt conceit. Danne. HANDSOMELY. adv. [from handfome.] 1. Conveniently; dexterously.-Under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh bandfamely in his way. Spenfer.

Where the kind nymph, changing her faultless fhape,

Becomes unhandsome, handsomely to 'scape.

Waller. 2. Beautifully; gracefully. 3. Elegantly; neatly. -A carpenter, after he hath fawn down a tree, hath wrought it handfomely, and made a veffel thereof. Wisdom. 4. Liberally; generously.-I am finding out a convenient place for an alms-house, which I intend to endow very handsomely for a dozen fuperannuated husbandmen. Addison.

* HANDSOMENESS. n. f. [from bandfome.] Beauty; grace; elegance.-Accompanying her mourning garments with a doleful countenance, yet neither forgetting handsomeness in her mourning garments, nor fweetnefs in her doleful countenance. Sidney.-For handsomeness' fake, it were good you hang the upper glass upon a nail. Bacon. In cloths, cheap bandfomenefs doth bear the bell. Herbert. -Perfons of the fairer fex like that handsomeness for which they find themselves to be the most liked. Boyle.

HANDSPEC, or ? n.. a lever made of strong HANDSPIKE, wood, for raifing great weights by the hand. It is 5 or 6 feet long, cut thin and crooked at the end, that it may get between or under things that require to be feparated or raised. It is preferable to the iron crow, as its length admits of a better poise.

* HANDVICE. n. f. [band and vice.] A vice to hold fmall work in. Moxon.

HANDWRITING. n. f. [hand and writing.] A caft or form of writing peculiar to each hand.That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show;

If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave me ink,

Your own handwriting would tell you what I
think,
Shak.

To no other cause than the wife providence of
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God can be referred the diversity of handwritings Cockburn.

*HANDY. adj. [from band.] 1. Executed or performed by the hand.-They were but few, yet they would easily overthrow great numbers of them, if ever they came to handy blows. Knolles. Both parties now were drawn so close, Almoft to come to handy blows. Hudibras.

2. Ready; dexterous; skilful.

She ftript the ftalks of all their leaves; the best She cull'd, and them with handy care the draft.

Dryden. Dryden.

The fervants wash the platter, fcour the plate: And each is handy in his way.

3. Convenient; ready to the hand.-The strikeblock is a plane fhorter than the jointer, and is more handy than the long jointer. Moxon.

* HANDYDANDY. . . A play in which children change hands and places.—See how youd juftice rails upon yond fimple thief! Hark in thine ear: change places; and, handydandy, which is the juftice, which is the thief? Shak-Neither cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite fo ancient as handydandy. Arbuthnot and Pope. HANEKER, a town of Suflex. HANEOYE, a lake in New-York. HANFA. See HANIFAH.

HANFORD, 5 villages; viz. r each in Cheshire, Dorfetfhire, and Staffordshire, and 2 in Middlesex. HANG, a town of Sweden, in E. Gothland.

(1.) * To HANG. v. a. preter. and part. paf. hanged or hung, anciently bong [bangan, Saxon.Į 1. To fufpend; to faften in fuch a manner as to be fuftained, not below, but above.

Strangely vifited people he cures ; Hanging a golden ftamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers.

Shak.

His great army is utterly ruined, he himfef flain in it, and his head and right hand cut off, and hung up before Jerufalem. South. 2. To place without any folid fupport.

Thou all things haft of nothing made, That hung the folid earth in fleeting air, Vein'd with clear fprings, which ambient fes repair. Sandys. 3. To choak and kill by fufpending by the neck, fo as that the ligature intercepts the breath and circulation.

He hath commiffion from thy wife and me To bang Cordelia in the prison. Shuk.

Hanging fuppofes human foul and reafon; This animal's below committing treason: Shall he be bang'd, who never could rebel? That's a preferment for Achitophel. Dryder. 4. To difplay; to fhow aloft.-This unlucky me misled several coxcombs; and, like the bang g out of falfe colours, made fome of them conves e with Rofalinda in what they thought the spirit her party. Addison. 5. To let fall below the proper fituation; to decline.-There is a wicked in. that hangeth down his head fadly; but inward y he is full of deceit. Eccluf. xix: 26.

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The beauties of this place fhould moure; Th' immortal fruits and flow'rs at my return: Should hang their wither'd head; for fure my breaft

Is now more poisonous.

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Dryden.

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The rofe is fragrant, but it fades in time; The violet fweet, but quickly paft the prime; White filies hang their heads, and soon decay ; And whiter fnow in minutes melts away. Dryd. The cheerful birds no longer fing; Each drops his head, and hangs his wing. Prior. 6. To fix in fuch a manner as in fome directions to be moveable.-The gates and the chambers they renewed, and hanged doors upon them. 1 Mac. iv. 57. 7. To cover or charge by any thing fufpended.

Hung be the heav'ns with black, yield day to night! Shak. The pavement ever foul with human gore; Heads and their mangled members hung the door. Dryden. 8. To furnish with ornaments or draperies faftened to the wall.-Mufic is better in chambers wainfcotted than banged. Bacon.

If e'er my pious father for my fake Did grateful off'rings on thy altars make, Or I increas'd them with my fylvan toils, And bung thy holy roofs with savage spoils, Give me to scatter these. Dryden. -Sir Roger has bung feveral parts of his houfe with the trophies of his labours. Addifon.

(2.) To HANG. v. n. 1. To be fufpended; to be fupported above, not below.

Over it a fair portcullis hong, Which to the gate directly did incline, With comely compass and compacture ftrong. Spenfer. 2. To depend; to fall loosely on the lower part; to dangle.

Upon her thoulders wings the wears,
Like hanging fleeves, lin❜d through with ears.
Hudibras.

If gaming does an aged fire entice, Then my young mafter swiftly learns the vice, And fhakes in banging fleeves the little box and dice. Dryden. 3. To bend forward.-By hanging is only meant a pofture of bending forward to ftrike the enemy. Addifon. 4. To float; to play.- .

And fall these fayings from that gentle tongue, Where civil speech and soft perfuafion hung? Prior. 5. To be fupported by fomething raised above the ground. Whatever is placed on the head may be faid to hang; as we call hanging gardens fuch as are planted on the top of the house. Addifon. 6. To rest upon by embracing.

She bung about my neck, and kiss on kifs She vied. Shak. To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck, Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave. Shak. -Fauftina is defcribed in the form of a lady fit ting upon a bed, and two little infants hanging about her neck Peacham. 7. To hover; to impend.

Shak.

He bath a heavenly gift of prophecy; And fundry bleflings bang about his throne, That fpeak him full of grace. -Odious names of diftinction, which had slept while the dread of popery bung over us, were revived. Atterbury. 8. To be loofely joined.Whither go you?

-To fee your wife: is the at home?

-Ay, and as idle as she may hang together.

Shak.

9. To drag; to be incommodiously joined.In my Lucia's abfence

Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden. Addifon. 10. To be compact or united: with together-In the common caufe we are all of a piece; we hang together. Dryden.-Your device hangs very well together; but is it not liable to exceptions? Addif. II. To adhere, unwelcomely or incommodiously. A cheerful temper fhines out in all her converfation, and diffipates thofe apprehenfions which hang on the timorous or the modeft, when admitted to her prefence. Addifon.-Shining landskips, gilded triumphs, and beautiful faces, difperfe that gloominefs which is apt to hang upon the mind in thofe dark difconfolate feafons. Addif. 12. To reft; to refide.

Sleep fhall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid.

Shak.

13. To be in fufpenfe; to be in a state of uncertainty. Thy life fhall hang in doubt before thee, and thou fhalt fear day and night, and shalt have none affurance of life. Deut. 14. To be delayed; to linger.

A noble ftroke he lifted high, Which bung not, but so swift with tempeft fell On the proud creft of Satan. Milton.

She thrice effay'd to speak: her accents bung, And fault'ring dy'd unfinish'd on her tongue. Dryden.

15. To be dependant on.

Oh, how wretched.

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! Shak.

Great queen! whose name strikes haughty monarchs pale,

On whofe juft fceptre bangs Europa's scale. Prior 16. To be fixed or fufpended with attention.➡ Though wond'ring fenates hung on all he

fpoke,

The club muft hail him mafter of the joke. Pope. 17. To have a steep declivity.-Suffex mari shews itself on the middle of the fides of hanging grounds. Mortimer. 18. To be executed by the halter.

The court forfakes him, and fir Balaam bangs. 19. To decline; to tend down.

Pope

His neck obliquely o'er his fhoulders hung, Prefs'd with the weight of fleep that tames the

strong.

Pope.

HANGCLIFF, a remarkable point of land on the east coast of the largest of the Shetland Islands. It is frequently the first land feen by fhips in northern voyages. Captain Phipps determined its fituation to be in Lon. 0° 56' 30" W. Lat. 60° 9′ N,

(1.) * HANGER. n. J. [from hang.] That by which any thing hangs: as, the pot bangers. (2.) * HANGER. n. f. [from hang.] A fhort broad fword.

HANGER HILL, a hill in Middlesex.

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* HANGER-ON. n. f. [from hang.] A dependant; one who eats and drinks without payment.—If the wife or children were abfent, their rooms were fupplied by the umbræ or hangers-on. Brown's Vulgar Errours.-They all excufed themfelves, fave

two,

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