Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms, as I have | +HINCH-PINCH. done this day. 1 Hen. IV, v, 3. See Warburton's note on the passage: Lead him a prisoner to the lady too. Sn. Warrant ye, though he were Gog or Hildebrand. Wits, O. PL., viii, 502. A base, low, menial A HILDING, s. wretch; derived by some from hinderling, a Devonshire word, signifying degenerate; by others, from the Saxon (see Todd's Johnson). Perhaps, after all, no more originally than a corruption of hireling, or hindling, diminutive of hind; which the following passage seems a little to confirm: A base slave, A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth, Cymb., ii, 3. In apposition with another substan tive, as peasant is occasionally used: 'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords, That our superfluous lacqueys, and our peasants, About our squares of battle, were enough To purge this field of such a hilding foe. Hen. V, iv, 2. For a coward: If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no All's Well, iii, 6. more in your respect. It was applied to women, as well as men: For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit. B. & Fl. Coxcomb, act iv, p. 216 (spoken of Viola). Heywood's Troia Britanica, 1609. HILTS. A familiar term for cudgels; the basket hilt, for the defence of the hand, being the most permanent part of them; the sticks might be changed at pleasure. Fetch the hills; fellow Juniper, wilt thou play? Jun. Seven, by these hills, I am a villain else. 1 Hen. IV, ii, 4. Hilts were frequently used in the The name of an old Christmas game, mentioned with are fitting complements for hynch pynch, and laugh +HINDBERRY. The raspberry. Morum rubi Idæi. Framboises. A raspis berrie, or Nomenclator, 1585. hyndberrie. HING, for hang, in the same manner as That fear, death, terror, and amazement bring; kings. There are traces of this form in the Scottish dialect. See the Glossary to Gavin Douglas's Virgil. +HINGELS. Hinges. Item, for the hingels of those doores, iij.s. HINT. MS. Accounts of Stockton, Norfolk, 1639. A suggestion; used also by Shakespeare for a cause or subject. Alack, for pity! I, not remembring how I cried on't then, (Steevens, Will cry it o'er again; it is a hint Temp, i, 2. Is much beyond our loss; our hint of woe Ibid., ii, 1. It may, however, mean there, slight Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, It was my hint to speak. Othello, i, S. In this passage the old quarto reads hent; the second quarto, hint. It seems most probable that the right reading is hint. See HENT. HIP. To have on the hip. To have at an entire advantage. This phrase seems to have originated from hunting, because, when the animal pursued is seized upon the hip, it is finally disabled from flight. In some of his notes on Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says, that it is taken from the art of wrestling; which is not without appearance of probability, because, when a wrestler can throw his adver sary across his own hip, he gives him the severest of all falls, technically termed a cross-buttock; but it will If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash Othello, ii, 1. Though this passage is greatly corrupted, its allusion to hunting cannot be overlooked. As to the text, the oldest quarto reads the first line, If this poor trash of Venice, whom I crush. Warburton conjectured "poor brach," sagaciously, and in exact conformity to the whole tenour of the passage. See BRACH. He also proposed cherish for crush, almost as happily; for certainly the general sense is, "If this hound, Roderigo, whose merit is his quick hunting, is staunch also, and will hold, I shall have my game on the hip." The present reading, trash, departs from this sense, and neither substitutes one so good, nor is itself fully established, as being legitimately used in that sense. It is derived from the reading of the folio, which is, If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace; Which seems to be more corrupt than the reading of the quarto. Warburton's conjectures at least make good sense of the whole, which is some advantage: If this poor brach of Venice, whom I cherish For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I'll have our Michaei Cassio on the hip. Cherish may not have been the very word of Shakespeare, but something to that effect is surely required. The chief objection is, that brach is seldom used, except for a female; but if that be thought valid, trash may stand, as a word of general contempt. Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, corrected the opinion given in his notes to Shakespeare, and derived the expression from hunting. [The meaning of the word in the following passage is not clear.] +The Græcians them commande that dwelt by hip In villages, to make no spare of wine. Mirour for Magistrates, 1587. HIPPOCRAS. A medicated drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes white, with the addition of sugar and spices. Some would derive it from ὑπὸ, and κεράννυμι, to mix; but Menage observes, that as the apothecaries call it vinum Hippocraticum, he is convinced that it is derived from Hippocrates, as being originally composed by medical skill. It is not improbable, that, as Mr. Theobald observes, in a note on the Scornful Lady (p. 286), it was called Hippocras, from the circumstance of its being strained; the woollen bag used for that purpose being called, by the apothecaries, Hippocrates's sleeve. It was a very favorite beverage, and usually given at weddings. dear to her. P. Stay, what's best to drink a mornings? R. Ipocras, sir, for my mistress, if I fetch it, is most Honest Wh., O. Pl., iii, 283. Drank to your health, whole nights, in Hippocras, Upon my knees, with more religion Than e'er I said my pray'rs, which heav'n forgive me. Antiquary, O. Pl., x, 28. In old books are many receipts for the composition of Hippocras, of which the following is one: Take of cinamon 2 oz. of ginger an oz. of grains a of an oz., punne [pound] them grosse, and put them into a pottle of good claret or white wine, with half a pound of sugar; let all steep together, a night at the least, close covered in some bottle of glasse, pewter, or stone; and when you would occupy it, cast a thinne linnen cloath or a piece of a boulter over the mouth of the bottle, and let so much run through as you will drink at that time, keeping the rest close, for so it will keep both the spirit, odor, and virtue of the wine and spices. And if you would make but a quart, then take but half the spices aforesaid. Haren of Health, ch. 228, p. 264. By a pottle is meant two quarts. See POTTLE. See also Strutt's View of Manners, &c., vol. iii, p. 74. +To make Hypocrass the best way.-Take 5 ounces of aqua vitæ, 2 ounces of pepper, and 2 of ginger, of cloves and grains of paradice each 2 ounces, ambergrease three grains, and of musk two grains, infuse them 24 hours in a glass bottle on pretty warm embers, and when your occasion requires to use it, put a pound of sugar into a quart of wine or cyder; dissolve it well, and then drop 3 or 4 drops of the infusion into it, and they will make it taste richly. Lupton's Thousand Notable Things. Sack, Hippocr.s now, and burnt brandy, But if thy purse won't reach so high, With ale and beer that want supply. Poor Robin, 1696. +HIRDES. See HURDS. And therefore, while we have Hiren here, speak my Pistol, in his rauts, twice brings in Down, down, dogs, down faitors! Have we not Hiren And soon after, Die men like dogs, give crowns like pins, Ibid. Mrs. Quickly, with admirable simplicity, supposes him to ask for a woman, and replies, "O my word, captain, we have no such here; what the goujere, do you think I would deny her?" Ibid. In another old play, on the Clown saying, "We have Hiren here," the Cook and he dispute whether it was Hiren or Siren. Massing. Old Law, iv, 1. Mr. Douce, by extraordinary chance, picked up an old rapier, with the very motto of Pistol's sword upon it, in French: Si fortune me tourmente, L'espérance me contente. See his Illustr. of Shakesp., i, p. 453, where he has given a woodcut of it. HIS, pron. It was commonly supposed, during the imperfect state of English grammar, that the pronoun his was the legitimate formative of the genitive case of nouns, and that the s, with an apostrophe, was only a substitute for that word. Modern grammarians, struck with the absurdity of supposing the same abbreviation to stand for his, her, and their (as the s is subjoined also to feminine and plural nouns), have recurred to the Saxon, where is, or es, formed the genitives; which fully accounts for the abbreviation. See Lowth's Gram., p. 25; Johnson's, prefixed to his Dict. ; and Tyrwhitt's Essay on the Language and Versif. of Chaucer, in his edition of the Cant. Tales, vol. iv, p. 31. But the other opinion was formerly general, and traces of it are found from the time of Shakespeare, and even earlier, to that of Addison. Ben Jonson says expressly, in his English Grammar, To the genitive cases of all nouns denoting a possessor, is added & with an apostrophe, thereby to avoid the gross syntax of the pronoun kis joining with a noun; as the emperor's court, the general's valour; not the emperor his court, &c. Chap. xiii, ed. Whalley, vol. vii, p. 250. This form, as is well known, occurs once at least in the Liturgy; namely, in the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men, which concludes, "and this we beg, for Jesus Christ his sake.” Shakespeare has written according to the notion of his time: Vincentio his son, brought up in Florence, Tam. Shr., i, 1. In the following, he seems to have accumulated the two methods: John, i, 1. Madam, an if my brother had my shape, And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him. Unless the true reading were "sir Robert his." Inaccurate speakers still occasionally use a double form, as sir Robert's 's, which may account for the accumulation in Shakespeare, whether by himself or his publishers. Spenser has written his, and made it form his verse in a peculiar manner: This knight too late, his manhood and his might And, His blood! I would I might have once seene that, +HITCHER. A sort of boat-hook. And when they could not cause him to rise, one of HO, s. Originally a call, from the in- Oli, aye; a plague on 'em, there's no ho with them, See also 382. Honest Wh., O. Pl., iii, 353, Because, forsooth, some odd poet, or some such fan- Play of Sir Thomas More. will needes be a man of warre. Nash's Lenten St., Harl. Misc., vi, p. 160. A Strange Metam., cited Cens. Lit., vii, 287. letters: When your tongue runs, there's no hoe with you, pray. +Phil. Must we still thus be check'd? we live not Cartwright's Royall Slave, 1651. Ben Jonson's comedy of the Devil is Tush! fear not the dodge; I'll rather put on my In that work it is indeed printed bo, HOAR, or HOARY. Used sometimes M. No hare, sir; unless Beaum. to Speght, on his Chaucer. To HOAR. To become white or mouldy, Devote to mouldy customs of hoar'd eld. †To HOAST. To take up one's abode If you would see the waters waving brine To hoast with you a month in every yeer. HOB. A frequent name, in old times, Why in this wolvish gown should I stand here, Coriol., ii, 3. Old Proph., cited by Steevens. Hence the farce of Hob in the Well, in much later times, to denote the clown in the well. Hob was also used as a substitute for hob-goblin: From elves, hobs, and fairies, That trouble our dairies, B. and Fl. Mons. Thom., iv, 6. For proof, take Merlin father'd by au hob, Because he was said to be the son of a demon. Mirr. Mag., 297. +Many of the countrey hobs, who had gotten an estate liable to a fine, took it first as a jeast, and thereupon made no appearance, but their purses afterwards paid for it in good earnest. This project alone bringing into the exchequer no less then a hundred thousand pound. Select Lives of English Worthies. HOB-GOBLIN. See PUCK. +HOB-IN-THE-HALL. an old game. The name of Sailor. Faith, to tell your honour the truth, we were at hob-in-the-hall, and whilst my brother and I were quarrelling about a cast, he slunk by us. Wycherley, Plain-dealer, 1677. HOB-NOB. See HABBE NABBE. HOBBIDIDANCE, or HOBERDIDANCE. One of Shakespeare's fiends, taken from the history of the Jesuits' impostures. See FLIBBERTI GIBBET. Hobbididance, prince of dumbness. +HOBBY. A species of hawk. Lear, iv, 1. For this understand, that my friends are unwilling that I should match so low, not knowing that love thinketh the juniper shrubbe to bee as high as the tall oakes, or the nightingales laies to be more precious then the estridges feathers, or the larke that breedeth in the ground to be better then the hobby that mounteth to the clouds. Lylie's Euphues. HOBBY-HORSE. A small horse; also a personage belonging to the ancient morris dance, when complete, and made, as Mr. Bayes's troops are on the stage, by the figure of a horse fastened round the waist of a man, his own legs going through the body of the horse, and enabling him to walk, but concealed by a long footcloth; while false legs appeared where those of the man should be, at the sides of the horse. The hobby-horse is represented by figure 5 of the plate subjoined to 1 Hen. IV, in Steevens's Shakespeare of 1778, and the subsequent editions, and illustrated by Mr. Tollet's remarks. Latterly the hobby-horse was frequently omitted, which appears to have occasioned a popular ballad, in which was this line, or burden: For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot. Which is quoted in Love's L. L., ii, 1, and Haml., iii, 2. T'other hobby-horse, I perceive, is not forgotten. Greene's Tu Quoque, Ó. l'l., vii, 97. But see, the hobby-horse is forgot. Fool it must be your lot, To supply his want with faces, B. Jons. Entert. of the Queen, &c., at Althorpe, vol. v, p. 211, ed. Whalley. This had become almost a proverbial expression : Cl. Answer me, hobbihorse, which way crost he you saw enow? Jen. Who do you speake to, sir? We have forgot the hobbihorse. Drue's Dutch. of Suff., C 4 b. The Puritans, who were declared enemies of all sports and games, seem to have been particularly inveterate against the poor hobby-horse. The following may be taken as a specimen of their eloquence against him: The beast is an unseemly and a lewd beast, And got at Rome by the pope's coach horses, His mother was the mare of ignorance. B. & Fl. Woman Pleas'd, 1. Where is much more to the same effect. The forgetting the hobbyhorse is there also introduced: Shall th' hobby-horse be forgot then? The hopeful hobby-horse, shall he lie founder'd? And the mode of carrying the horse is alluded to: as Take up your horse again, and girth him to you, Nay, look you, sir, there's ne'er a gentleman in the HOBELER, or HOBBLER. A term for |