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12. Not easily digested ; not light to thestomach.

Such preparations as retain the oil or fat, aremost heavy to the stomach, which makes bakedmeat hard of digestion. Arbuthnot.

1S. Rich in soil; fertile, as heavy lands.14. Deep ; cumbersome, as heavy roads.Hea'vy. adv. As an adverb it is onlyused in composition ; heavily.

Your carriages were heavy laden; they are aburden to the weary beast. ha. xlvi. 1.

Ci.me unto me all ye that labour and arc heavyladen, and I will give you rest. Matt. xi. 28.

HE'BDOMAD. n. s. [ hehdomas , Lat.] Aweek ; a space of seven days.

Computing by the medical month, the first heb-domad, oi septenary consists of six days, seventeenhours and a half. Brown.

Hebdo'maiial. \adj. [from hebdo-Hkbdo'madary. J mas, Lat.] Week-ly ; consisting of seven days.

As for hebdomadal periods, or weeks, in regardof their sabbaths, they were Observed by the He-brews. Brown.

To HE BETATE, v. a. [hebeto, Lat. hebe-ter, Fr.] To dull; to blunt; to stu-pify.

1 lie eye, especially if hebetated , might cause thesame perception. Harvey.

Beef may confer a robustness on the limbs ofmy son, but will hebetate ami clog his intellectuals.

Arbuthnot and Pope.

Hebf.TA'tion. ti. s. [from hebetate.]

1. The act of dulling.

2. The state of being dulled.

He'betude. n.s. [hebetudo, Lat.] Dul-

ness; obtuseness ; bluntness.

The pestilent seminaries, according to theirgrossness or subtilty, activity or hebetude, causemore or less truculent plagues. Harvey.

He'braism. n. s. [hebraisme , Fr. hebrais-mus, Lat.] A Hebrew idiom.

Milton lias infused a great many I,at in isms, aswell as Grtccisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, intohis poem. Spectator,

He'braist. n.s. [ hebreeus, Lat.] A manskilled in Hebrew .

He'brician. n.s. [from Hebrew .} Oneskilful in Hebrew .

The words are more properly taken for the airor ether than the heavens, as the best Hebricians< understand them. lialeigh.

The nature of the Hebrew verse, as the meanestHebrician knoweth, consists of uneven feet.

Peacham.

Hecatomb, n. s. [hecatombe, Fr.I 7 .ur 0 y. 8 e.} A sacrifice of an hundred cat-tle.

In rich mens homes

I bid kill some beasts, but no hecatombs;

None starve, none surfeit so. Donne.

One of these three is a whole hecatomb tAnd therefore only one of them shall die. Dryden.

Her triumphant sons in war succeed,

And slaughter’d hecatombs around ’em bleed. Addi.

He'ctical. i adj. [hectique , Fr. fromHe'ctick. £ f£i;.]

1. Habitual; constitutional.

This word is joined only to that kind^ of feverwhich is slow and continual, and ending in a con-sumption, is the contrary to those fevers whicharise from a plethora, or too great fullness fromobstruction. It is attended with too lax a state ofthe excretory passages, and generally those of theskin ; whereby so much runs otf as leaves not re-sistance enough in the contractile vessels to keepthem sufficiently distended, so that they vibrateoftener, agitate the fluids the more, and keep themthin and not. Quincy.

A hectick fever hath got holdOf the whole substance,not to be controul’d. Donne.

2. Troubled with a morbid heat.

No hectick student scars the gentle ninid.Taylor.

He'ctick. n.s. An hectick fever.

Like the hectick in my blood he rages,

And thou must cure me. Shakesp. Hamlet.

H E CTOR, n. s. [from the name of Hector,the great Homeric warriour.] A bully;a blustering, turbulent, pervicacious,noisy fellow.

Those usurping hectors, who pretend to honourwithout religion, think the charge of a lye a blotnot to be washed out but by blood. South.

We’ll take one cooling cup of nectar,

And drink to this celestial hector■ Prior.

To He'ctor. v. a. [from the noun.] Tothreaten ; to treat with insolent authori-tative terms.

They reckon they must part with honour toge-ther with their opinion, if they suffer themselvesto be hectored out of it. Governm. of the Tongue .

The weak low spirit Fortune makes her slave ;But she’s a drudge, when hector'd by the brave.

Dryden.

An honest man, when lie came home at night,found another fellow domineering in his Family,hectoring his servants, and calling for supper.

Arbuthnot's History of John Bull.

To He'ctor. - r. n. To play the bully;to bluster.

They have attacked me, some with piteousmoans and outcries, others grinning and onlyshewing their teeth, others raining and hectoring,others scolding and reviling. Stillingjieet.

One would think the hectoring, the storming,the sullen, and all the diffeient species of the an-gry should be cured. Spectator.

Don Carlos made her chief director,

That she might o’er the servants hector Swift.

Hedera'ceous . adj. [hcderaceus, Lat.]Producing ivy. Diet.

HEDGE. 71 . s. [Jjesje, Sax.] A fencemade round grounds with prickly bush-es, or woven twigs.

It is a good wood for fire, if kept drv ; and isvery useful for stakes in hedges. 'Mtrrtimer.

The gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye,every morning, and the hedges breath is bevoudall perfume. Vope.

Through the verdant mazeOf sweet-briar hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

Hedge, prefixed to any word, notes some-thing mean, vile of the lowest class:perhaps from a hedge, or hedge bornman , a man without any known place ofbirth.

There are five in the first shew : the pedant, thebraggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy.

Shakesp.

The clergy do much better than a little hedge,contemptible, illiterate vicar can be presumed todo. Swift.

A person,who, by his style and literature, seemsto have been the corrector of a hedge-press in LittleBritain, proceeded gradually to an author. Swift.

To Hedge, r. a. [from the noun.]

1. To inclose with a hedge, or fence ofwood dry or growing.

Hedge thy possession about with thorns. Eccles.Those alleys must be hedged at both ends, tokeep out the wind. Bacon .

2. To obstruct.

1 will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos . ii. 6.

3. To incircle for defence.

England, hedg'd in with the main,

That water-walled bulwark, still secure

And confident from foreign purposes. Shakesp.

There’s such divinity doth hedge a king,

That treason can but peep to what it would. Shak.

4. To shut up within an inclosure.

It must not be paid and exported in ready mo-ney ; so says our law ; but that is a law to hedgein the cuck"ow, and serves for no purpose: for if

we export not goods, for which our merchants hamoney due to them, how can it be paid bvof exchange ? l.ocKf’

5. To force into a place already full. Th‘ sseems to be mistaken for edge. To edg ein, is to put in by the way that reqU> reSleast room; but hedge may signify t0thrust in with difficulty, as into a heug 1 ’

You forget yourself

To hedge me in. Shakesp. Julius Utf 1 * '

When I was hasty, thou dclay’dst me )ong e( '

I pr'ythce, let me hedge one moment more ,Into thy promise ; for thy life preserv’d. , 0When you are sent on an errand, be surfhedge in some business of your own.

To Hedge, v. n. To shift; to hide tnhead.

I myself sometimes, hiding mine honour ittnecessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to

Hedge-born. adj. [hedge and born ^no known birth; meanly born.

lie then, that is not furnish'd in this sort,

Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,

And should, if I were worthy to be judge,

Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain.

That doth presume to boast of gentle blood- 1

Hedge-creeper, ti. s. [ hedge andctyjOne that skulks under hedges f° r ^purposes. , (i .

Hedge-fumitory, n.s. A plant;maria sepium. AinsiV 01

IIedge-hog. n.s. [hedge, and hog; c>naceous.}

1. An animal with prickles, like then -11an hedge.

Like hedge-hogs, which ull t

Lie tumbling in my hare-foot way, and ''j-Lpc’d'Their pricks at my foot-fall. Shakesp■ le Jj, toFew have belief to swallow, or hope eI1 ,°'- 0experience, the collyrium of Albertos ; 1 [‘ cC( ,rvmake one see in the dark : yet thus much 'ing to his receipt, will the right eye “f lll [ v -es sl ’ 'hog, boiled in oil, ami preserved in a brindb,-. tf nifeffect. Broom’s 1 tlii c *

The hedge-hog hath his backside and tw | ieS idf”set with strong and sharp prickles ; sC |f' n! ',

by the help of a muscle, can contract i l | ’ B ,| W |ea globular figure, and so withdraw his^. piic*,derpart, head, belly, and legs, within ll, s parof prickles.

2. A term of reproach.

Did’st thou nut kill this king ? -

—I grant ye. -

— Ilo’st grant me, hedge-hog? _ 7 /t A 1 ***'

3. A plant; trefoil; viedica echi> iat si?•

4. The globe-fish ; orbis echinatu s ■ j j t ys-

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