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Horned Toad – Hour Glass

Horned Toad

also called HORNED FROG and HORNED LIZARD (Phrynosoma cornutum), a lizard belonging to the Agamidæ. It is found in Mexico, Texas, Oregon, and California.

Hornstone

a cryptocrystalline variety of quartz resembling flint, but more brittle. Called also chert.

Horsens

a city of Denmark, in the Province of Aarhus. It has a beautiful church, a convent, a chapel, and a high school. The principal industries are principal industries ironworking, shipbuilding, and the man- , and the manufacture of woodenware. There are woodenware. There also important agricultural interests.

Pop. about 24,000 .

Horseshoe Crabs

a name for the crustaceous genus Limulus, more commonly called king crabs. The resemblance to a horseshoe is in the buckler which covers the anterior part of the body.

Hortense

EUGÉNIE DE BEAU-

Hortensius

QUINTUS (hōr-tēn'sē-us), a celebrated Roman orator; born in 114 B. C. Till his great rival, Cicero, bore away the palm, he eclipsed all others in the grace and splendor of his eloquence. He held many civil and military offices; was made consul 69 B. C.; was Cicero's colleague as augur; and died immensely rich in 50 в. c.

Horticultural Societies

societies formed by the encouragement of both the art and the science of the cultivation of garden plants.

Hosiery

a general term for all kinds of knitted articles, including drawers, petticoats, night-dresses, etc., and fancy articles such as head-dresses, hoods, shawls, neckerchiefs, cravats, etc.

The materials used for the purpose are cotton, linen, and wool, the last of which is sometimes mixed with cotton or silk.

Silk is also frequently used alone.

Hosmer

HARRIET, an American sculptor; born in Watertown, Mass., Oct. 9, 1830; studied at Rome; and among her best-known works are "Ideal Heads of Daphne and Medusa," "Puck," "The Sleeping Faun," "Waking Faun," "Beatrice Cenci"; statues of Thomas H. Benton, Queen Isabella, and the Queen of Naples; and a number of ornamental fountains. She died Feb. 21, 1908.

Hostage

a person given in pledge or security for the performance of certain conditions, or for the the safety of others.

Hotchkiss

BENJAMIN BERKE- LEY, an American inventor; born in Watertown, Conn., Oct. 1, 1826; was in early life a machinist and turned his attention to the invention of deadly weapons, most notable of which is the HOTCHKISS GUN (q. v.). He died in Paris, Feb. 14, 1885.

Hour Glass

a glass having two bulbs and a connecting opening through which the sand in one bulb runs into the other. The amount of sand and size of the opening are such that a given amount of time is consumed in the passage.