More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Hoyle
Aiton's Encyclopedia: hoil, Edmund (1672-1769), a London barrister. Little is known of him save that he was an expert in all matters pertaining to cards and other games. In 1742 he published a Short Treatise on Whist. Compilations of rules and instructions for playing various card games, dominoes, checkers, chess, etc., are still sold under the name of Hoyle's Games. The expression, "according to Hoyle," has become proverbial. See Games ; Sports
Collier's New Encyclopedia: EDMOND, an English writer on games; born in 1672. He is said to have been educated for the bar. He lived for some time in London, writing on games and giving lessons in whist, which he invented. In 1742 he published his "Short Treatise on Whist." He died in London, England, Aug. 29, 1769.
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Hudson Bay
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an inland sea of Canada. It is one of the largest inlets of the ocean known. The greatest extent from north to south is about 800 miles. The greatest breadth is 600 miles. The sea is open to ships from the middle of June to the end of October. At other seasons it is obstructed by cakes of floating ice. There are excellent fisheries. The right whale is taken in its waters. The eastern shore is rocky and precipitous. The western shore is low and swampy. It is believed that large areas adjacent to the bay, especially on the southwest, may one day be converted into a valuable dairy and stock country; but as yet there are only a few villages on its shores occupied by the fisher and the fur trader.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an inland sea of British North America, between lat. 51° and 64° N., and lon. 77° and 95° W. Corinthian Gulf, Gulf of Boothia, and Fox Channel connect it with the Arctic Ocean on the N., and Hudson's Strait connects it with Davis Strait on the E. It covers an area of about 510,000 square miles, the S. part of which, embracing about one-fourth of the bay, is called James Bay. Hudson Bay is only navigable during a few months in the year. It was discovered by Henry Hudson.
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Humus
Aiton's Encyclopedia: vegetable mold. Humus is commonly of a dark brown or black color. It is produced by the decay of vegetable matter exposed to little air. Soils otherwise rich require the presence of humus to become productive. Earth partly composed of forest leaves or half rotten turf is rich in humus. Florists prefer usually sand in their flowerpots and greenhouses, but they heap up huge piles of thin sod and allow it to decay as an enriching material. It supplies the humus required by the roots of plants. The farmer dresses his fields with barnyard manure. As it undergoes decay this litter adds a coarse humus to the soil. Old straw decaying underground furnishes a supply of this desired ingredient. See Soil ; Clover ; Agriculture
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a substance which occurs in vegetable mold, and in liquids containing decomposing vegetable matter. Humus a as it exists in the soil is a product of the decay of vegetables. It is a mixture of various carbon compounds, which slowly undergo combustion with the production of carbon dioxide, water, and ammonia, which are again taken up by plants.
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Hundred
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in central and southern England, a name for a district corresponding to the wapentake of northern England. The country is divided into one-hundreds, corresponding, no doubt, to the districts which in early times were able to furnish 100 men able to bear arms. The term was introduced into several of the American colonies, and is still retained in Delaware, where a hundred corresponds to the town, township, or parish of other states. See Chiltern Hundreds
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a division of a county in England, supposed to be named from originally containing 100 families or freemen. A long hundred, a great hundred, the sum or number of 120.
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Hyacinth
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in classical mythology, a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him undesignedly by a throw of a discus or quoit. The god transformed him into a flower (hyacinthus), on which, in memorial of his grief, he inscribed the Greek letters "alpha" and "iota." Scientifically viewed, the process should be reversed. The discovery of some plant with marks faintly resembling the Greek letters "alpha" and "iota" generated the myth of the youth Hyacinthus. In botany, a genus of Liliaceæ, tribe Scilleæ, once so extensive as to include the common wild hyacinth (hyacinth of the woods) or blue-bell, then called Hyacinthus nonscriptus, next transferred to the genus Agraphis of Link, and called Agraphis nutans, and now figuring as Scilla nutans. In mineralogy, a precious stone, described by Pliny as of the color of a hyacinth, and also like an amethyst, but not so blue. Some consider it a kind of amethyst.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: hi'a-sinth, a bulbous plant of the lily family. There are over thirty species, chiefly natives of south Africa or the Mediterranean coast. The common hyacinth has half a dozen long, thick, green leaves and a central flower stalk bearing a cylindrical mass of fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers in many colors. The perfume is strongest during the middle hours of the night. Easily cultivated from bulbs. In Greek mythology there is a legend that the hyacinths sprang from drops of blood shed by the hero Ajax. See Ajax Hyacinth. Life size
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Hyperion
Aiton's Encyclopedia: hi-pe'ri-on, in Greek mythology, one of the Titans, son of Uranus (the sky) and Gaea (the earth). He became the father of Helios (the sun), Selene (the moon), and Eos (the dawn). Hyperion was the original sun god and is represented as gloriously bright and beautiful. In astronomy, the name Hyperion is given to one of the satellites of Saturn. Longfellow has given the name Hyperion to a romance which he published in 1839. It is an account of the travels of a young man through foreign countries, and is interspersed with legends, poems, and philosophical discourses.
1000 Classical Characters: A son of Coelus and Terra, who married Thea. Aurora was their daughter. Keats has written a magnificent poem entitled Hyperion. Hyperion is often used by the poets to signify the sun; as, for instance, by Shakespeare in Titus Andronicus (act v. Sc. 2): "Even from Hyperion's rising in the east, Until his very downfall in the sea." Also in Troilus and Cressida, and other of Shakespeare's plays, the same license is used.
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