As when he drinkes out all the totall summe, Taylor's Workes, 1630. HUNGARIAN. A cant term, probably formed in double allusion to the freebooters of Hungary, that once infested the continent of Europe, and to the word hungry. Away, I have knights and colonels at my house, and must tend the hungarians. Merry Dev. of Edm., O. Pl., v, 267. This is said by an innkeeper, who probably was meant to speak of hungry guests. Afterwards he gives it us in the other sense: Come, ye Hungarian pilchers, [for filchers] we are once more come under the zona torrida of the forest. Ibid., p. 285. The middle aile [of St Paul's] is much frequented at noon with a company of hungarians, not walking so much for recreation as need. Lupton's London, Harl. Misc., ix, 314. Hungarian is the reading of the folio edition of Shakespeare, where the original quarto has Gongarian. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 3. The latter is thought to be the right reading. See GONGARIAN. †To HUNGER. To starve. At last the prince to Zeland came hymselfe To hunger Middleburgh, or make it yeeld. Gascoigne's Works, 1587. +HUNGERBANED. Bitten with hunger, starved. Whereby it cometh to passe that the people depart out of church full of musicke and harmonie, but yet hungerband and fasting, as touching heavenly foode and doctrine. Northbrooke, Treatise against Dicing, 1577. +HUNGER-BITTEN. Starved. Here also be two verie notorious rivers, Oxus and Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. Virgil, by Vicars, 1632. +HUNGERLIN. A sort of short furred robe, so named from having been derived from Hungary. A letter or epistle, should be short-coated, and closely +HUNKS. A term of contempt, applied especially to a miser. I, I will peace it, if I catch the hunkes. Historie of Albino and Bellama, 1638. To HUNT COUNTER. To hunt the wrong way, to trace the scent backwards. When the hounds or beagles hunt it by the heel, we say they hunt counter. Gentl. Recr., 8vo ed., p. 16. To hunt by the heel must be to go towards the heel instead of the toe of "To the game, i. e., backwards. hunt counter, retrò legere vestigia." Coles' Lat. Dict. You mean to make a hoiden or a hare O' me, t' hunt counter thus, and make these doubles. B. Jons. Tale of a Tub, ii, 6. A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry foot well. Com. of Err., iv, 2. This is contradictory, as to hunting, for to draw dry foot, is to pursue rightly in one way; to hunt counter, is to go the wrong way; but it is a quibble upon a bailiff, as hunting for the Counter, or Compter prisou. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs. Haml., iv, 5. And trulie, answered Euphues, you are worse made for a hound than a hunter, for you mar your sent with carren, before you start your game, which maketh you hunt often counter. Euph. Engl., A a 1. It seems to be an error to join the two words into one, as if to make a name, in this passage: You hunt-counter, hence! avaunt! Falstaff means rather to tell the man that he is on a wrong scent: "You are hunting counter;' "that is, the wrong way. In the old quartos the words are disjoined accordingly: You hunt counter, hence! avaunt! 2 Hen. IV, i, 2. We see, by the passage in Hamlet, that hunting counter was used with latitude for taking a false trail, and not strictly confined to going the wrong way. A HUNT'S-UP. A noise made to rouse a person in a morning; originally a tune played to wake the sportsmen, and call them together, the purport of which was, The hunt is up! which was the subject of hunting ballads also. In Puttenham's Art of English Poesy Mr. was commou. Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day. Rom. and Jul., iii, 5. I love no chamber-musick; but a drum To give me hunts-up. Four Prentices, O. Pl., vi, 472. Rowland, for shame, awake thy drowsy muse, Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. 1392. Drayt. Ecl., iii, p. No sooner doth the earth her flowery bosom brave, At such time as the year brings on the pleasant spring, But hunts-up to the morn the feather'd sylvans sing. Drayt. Pol., xiii, p. 914. † HUNTER'S MASS. A short mass, said in great haste, for hunters who were eager to start for the chase; hence used as a phrase for any hurried proceeding. A frier that was vesting himselfe to masse, a gentle- What from the hurden smock, with lockram upper Account of K. Charles's escape from Worcester. King Alfred and the Shepherd. Now that part [of the flax] which is utmost, and next 4. +To HURKLE. To shrug. Another sadly fixing his eies on the ground, and Optick Glasse of Humors, 1639. †HURLEBAT. A weapon, apparently Aclis, aclidis, a kynde of weapon, used in olde tyme, Laying about him as if they had beene fighting at HURLEWIND. Whirlwind; possibly And as oft-times upon some fearfull clap Of thunder, straight a hurlewind doth arise Harringt. Ariost., xlv, 69. Sandys, cited by Todd. 2 Hen. IV, iii, 1. John, iii, 4. Hurlu-burlu, which is not in the common French dictionaries, is in the latest editions of the dictionary of the Academy, both as substantive and adjective. Explained "étourdi." he met. +By happe if in this hurly burle with prince or king A. Hall's Homer, p. 18, 1581. +A hurly burly went through the house, and one comes and whispers the lady with the newes. Armin, Nest of Ninnies, 1608. R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound. Not the dreadful spout Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Tr. & Cr., v, 2. Lear, iii, 2. You cataracts, and hurricanos, spout an Drayt. Mooncalf, p. 494. Menage says that ouragan is Indian word. I find it written herocane in one passage: Such as would have made their party good against all assailants, had they not been dispersed and weakened by violent tempests; besides the unexpected herocane, which dashed all the endeavours of the best pilots. Lady Alimony, iv, 1. +HURRY-WHORE. A contemptuous name for a common prostitute. And I doe wish with all my heart, that the superfluous number of all our hyreling hackney carryknaves, and hurry-whores, with their makers and maintainers, were there, where they might never want continuall imployment. Taylor's Workes, 1630. HURST. A wood. Saxon and low Latin. It occurs in many names of places, either singly or in composition, Now hurtling round, advantage for to take. Also actively, to brandish: His harmfull club he gan to hurtle hye. +HURTLE, s. A pimple? reprinted in Hawkins's Origin of the English Drama, vol. i, p. 69. Hyckescorner is there represented "as a libertine returned from travel, who, agreeably to his name, scoffs at religion." Percy Anc. Ballads, i, p.132. But whether the term were taken from the drama, or the name of the play from a term already current, we find it used as a general name. Zeno beeyng outright all together a stoique, used to call Socrates the scoffer or the Hicke-scorner of the citee of Athens. Udall's Apophth. of Erasmus, 1564, Preface, sign. xxv, b. +Sophistrie dooeth no helpe, use, ne service to doings in publique affaires or bearing offices in a common weale, whiche publique offices who so is a suiter to have, it behoveth the same not to plaie Hicke skorner with insolubles and with idle knackes of sophisticacions, but rather to frame and facion himself to the maners and condicions of menne, and to bee of soche sort as other men be. Ibid. I find hick used for a man, in cant language, in an old song: That not one hick spares. And again: A HYEN. Ibid., II, vii, 42. A HYEN. Upon whose palmes such warts and hurtells rise, Silkewormes and their Flies, 1599. HUSBAND, for husbandman, farmer. For husband's life is labourous and hard. Spens. Moth. Hubb. Tale, 266. That feeds the husband's neat each winter's day. Browne, Brit. Past., I, 3, p. 61. Johnson has cited it from Dryden also, with whom many words lingered that are since obsolete. HUSHER, or HUISHER. or gentleman usher. French. An usher, A gentle husher, Vanitie by name, But more for care of the security, And throughout that play. +HUSHTNESS. Silence. A generall hushtnesse hath the world possest, Still wishing for Apolloes golden beames. Heywood's Troia Britanica, 1609. †To HUSK. To cover with a husk. Like Jupiter huskt in a female skin. Historie of Albino and Bellama, 1638. +To HUZZ. To hum. Murmure. A murmuring: a mumbling in the mouth: a muttering: an humming or huzzing noise. Nomenclator. HYCKE-SCORNER. The title of an old morality, or allegorical drama, printed by Wynken de Worde, and That can bulk any hick. Acad. of Compl., ed. 1713, p. 204. Used by Shakespeare only, I believe, for hyena. I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art HYREN, for hiren. Sylvester uses it Du B., Week ii, Day 2, part 3. I & J. was commonly said and written, in the time of Shakespeare, for aye; which afforded great scope and temptation for punning, as may be seen in the following passages: But what said she did she nod? Sp. 1. Pro. Nod Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but I, And that bare vowel I shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I, if there be such an I. Rom. & Jul., iii, 2. This is very lamentable, in a passage that should rather have been pathetic. In the same strain Drayton has a whole sonnet, which carries the absurdity still further; it is, however, curious: Nothing but No and I, and I and No, How falls it out so strangely you reply? I tell you, fair, I'll not be answer'd so With this affirming No, denying I. Save me, cry; you sigh me out a No. And let me take myself what I do crave: Idea 5. Line the tenth is nearly the same as As when the disagreeing commons throw Herrick, p. 360. re I'll drink no more than will do me good, for no man's Rom. & Jul., iii, 1. Ibid. Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I. Ironically: I am an ass, I! and yet I kept the stage in master Tarleton's time. I am none of those common pedants, I, Mirr. Mag., P. 52. I per se, as A PER SE, &c.; I by itself: If then your I agreement want, I to your I must answer No. And let my I be I per se. Wit's Interp., p. 116. +JABISH. Perhaps amisprint for jadish. spurn. To discourse him seriously is to read the ethics to a monkey, or make an oration to Caligula's horse, whence you can only expect a wee-hee or jahish Twelve Ingenious Characters, 1686. JACK, s. A horseman's defensive upper garment, quilted and covered with strong leather. It is usually interpreted a coat of mail, but some of the following quotations seem to prove otherwise. A kind of pitcher made of leather was similarly called a black jack, even in my memory. I have half a score jades that draw my beer carts; First P. of Sir J. Olde., Suppl. to Sh., ii, 297. The ground lay strew'd with male and shreds of which in other countries they use, as corslets, Almaine rivets, shirts of male, jackes quilted, and covered over with leather, fustian, or canvas, over thick plates of yron that are sowed to the same. Euph. Engl., F f 2, b. Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad. The following, however, is an instance Edw. III, i, 2, in Capell's Prolus. Unless the original copy had "jacks, or gymold," which seems to me most probable. +But with the trusty bow, +Te ulciscar, I will be revenged on thee: I will sit on + My lord lay in Morton College; and, as he was tuus. The ignis fa I am an evening dark as night, JACK-A-LENT. The Slighted Maid, p. 48. A stuffed puppet, dressed in rags, &c., which was thrown at throughout Lent, as cocks were on Shrove Tuesday. Thou cam'st but half a thing into the world, there. Nay, you old Jack-a-Lent, six weeks and upwards, though you be our captain's father you cannot stay Four Prentices, O. Pl., vi, 478. By which is meant, that the old man is come to the utmost extent of his utility and existence. The very children in the street do adore me; for if a Greene's Tu Quoque, O. Pl., vii, 92. Make me a Jack o' Lent, and break my shins B. & Fl. Woman's Prize, iv, 3. Breton introduces the name of this personage with an allusion to a wellknown proverb: The puffing fat that shewes the pesant's feede, JACK-AN-APES. A monkey, or ape; from Jack and ape. In this sense it has been long disused, though common enough still, as addressed to an impertinent and contemptible coxcomb. This performed, and the horse and jack-an-apes for a jigge, they had sport enough that day for nothing. Gayton, Fest. Notes, p. 272. Like a come aloft jacanapes. Sheldon, cited by Todd. Notwithstanding the attempts of Ritson and others to derive it from Jack Napes, a person never heard of, I have no doubt that the real derivation is Jack and ape, as Johnson gave it. Mr. Todd does not appear to have observed, that in the instance which I have copied from him, it simply means an ape. See COME ALOFT. That which would make a jackanapes a monkey, if he could get it, a tayle. Isle of Gulls, ii, 1. Massinger coined the word Jane-anapes, as a jocular counterpart to Jackan-apes. Bondm., iii, 2. JACK OF THE CLOCK, or CLOCKHOUSE. A figure made in old public clocks to strike the bell on the outside; of the same kind as those formerly at St. Dunstan's church in Fleet-street. Jack, being the most familiar appellative, was frequently bestowed upon whatever bore the form, or seemed to do the work, of a man or servant. Thus, roasting jacks were so named from performing the office of a man, who acted as turnspit, before that office devolved upon dogs. Jack and Gill were, indeed, familiar representatives of the two sexes in low life; as in the proverb, "Every Jack must have his Gill," and, "A good Jack makes a late. Uber. Faith, sir, you lie. Is this your jack i' th' clock-house? Will you strike, sir? B. & F. Cozcomb, act i, p. 167. But, howsoever, if Powles jacks be once up with their elbowes, and quarelling to strike eleven, as soon as ever the clock has parted them, and ended the fray with his hammer, let not the duke's gallery conteyne you any longer. Decker's Gul's Hornbook, 1609. By the above it appears that the jacks at St. Paul's struck only the quarters. Decker, in another pamphlet, tells us of a fraternity of sharpers who called themselves Jackes of the clockhouse: There is another fraternitie of wandring pilgrims, who merrily call themselves Jackes of the clock-house. He then describes that piece of mechanism particularly: The jacke of a clock-house goes upon screws, and his office is to do nothing but strike, so does this noise (for they walke up and down like fidlers) travaile with motions, and whatever their motions get them is called striking. Lantern and Candlelight, or the Belman's Second Night Walk, &c. See NOISE. He scrapes you just such a leg, in answering you, as jack o' th' clock-house agoing about to strike. Flecknoe's Enigmat. Char., p. 76. Cotgrave, in the article Fretillon, introduces it as a general term for a diminutive or paltry fellow: A little nimble dwarfe or hop-on-my-thumbe; a jacke of the clock-house; a little busie-body, medler, jackstickler; one that has an oare in every man's buat, or his hand in every man's dish. Timon, iii, 6. Minute-jacks, in Timon of Athens, have been supposed to mean the same thing; but jacks that struck hours or quarters could hardly be so called. Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks. Probably jacks are there only equiva lent to fellows, as in Richard III: "silken, sly, insinuating jacks." It will then mean "fellows who watch the proper minutes to offer their |