Hidalgo
a State of Mexico, the northern and northeastern portions of which are mountainous , being crossed by the east range of the Sierra Madre, whose highest elevation is over 10,000 feet. The southern and western parts of include the State contain many fertile valleys. The cereals, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, etc. Mining is an important industry. Silver, iron, lead, and zinc are produced . Coal and marble are also found there. agricultural products Pop. about 600,000. The capital is Pachuca.
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Hiddenite
a variety of Spodumene, discovered by W. E. Hidden in 1879 in North Carolina. Green or yellowish green in color; specific gravity, 3.19. When cut and polished, Hiddenite is used as a gem, and is sometimes known as the lithia emerald. Chemically it is a lithium aluminum silicate.
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Hide-faced Hammers
Hammers provided with faces of hide, suitable for a variety of uses, but especially valuable where light, thin castings are made from iron or brass patterns. Hinged Flasks are flasks operated by hinges fixed on their sides or ends instead of slides or pins, making it only necessary to elevate one side or end in order to separate the parts. Suitable hinges of a self-adjustable kind, if properly secured in their respective positions, are a positive fit, and never get out of order. Flasks, paired with hinges, require less space to operate them in, and are valuable in small foundries where it would be impossible to lift large flasks entirely off the joint. Resting in hinges, they may be separated very effectively with half the force required by the common methods. See FLASKS.
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Hides
the skins of animals, either raw or dressed; but the name is more commonly gi given to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc., the smaller being called skins. See LEATHER.
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Hielmite
a black mineral of metallic luster and granular fracture. It is a stanno-tantalate of iron, uranium, and yttria, occurring in peg- , in Sweden. matite near Falun
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Hieracium
the hawkweeds, a genus of plants, order Asteraceæ. They are perennial herbs, with leaves alternate, entire, or toothed; involucre more flowered; or less imbricated, ovoid, many- H. Canadense, H. . H. Can venosum, and H. paniculatum are Amerscales very unequal ican species. H. murorum, the goldenlungwort, or wall-hawkweed, is a native of Europe.
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Hierapolis
a city of Phrygia, near the junction of the rivers Lycus and Meander, celebrated for its warm springs, and its cave Plutonium, from which arose a mephitic vapor which was poisonous to all but the priests of Cybele. A Christian Church was early established here, and St. Paul mentions it (Col. iv:12, 13). The city is now desolate, but its ruins still exhibit many traces of its ancient splendor. Also a city of Syria, called Bambyce by the carly natives, one of the chief seats of the worship of Astarte or Ashtoreth.
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Hierarchy
the name used to designate the whole sacred governing and ministering body in the Church, distributed according to its several gradations.
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Hiero
or HIERON I., King of Syracuse. He succeeded his brother Gelon in 478 b. c. The most important event of his reign was the naval victory gained by his fleet and that of the Cumani over the Etruscans in 474, which deprived the latter of their supremacy in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Though violent and rapacious, he was a lover of poetry, and the patron of Simonides, Æschylus, Bacchylides, and Pindar. Hiero died in Catana, Sicily, in 467 B. C. HIERO II., King of Syracuse; born about 307 b. c. He was a son of Hierocles, a noble Syracusan, who claimed descent from the family of Gelon. He was chosen by the soldiers as general in 275 B. c., and recognized as king about 270. In 264 he made an alliance with the Carthaginians against Rome, and thus began the first Punic War. Being defeated by the Romans he made peace by the payment of tribute, and was ever after a faithful and useful ally to them. He died in 216 B. c.
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Hierochloa
the holygrasses, a genus of plants, order Graminaceæ. H. borealis, the Holy or Seneca grass, is a grass about a foot high, with a brownish glossy lax panicle. It is found in the N. of Europe, and in America from Virginia up to the Arctic regions. It has a sweet smell, and in Iceland is used for scenting apartments and clothes.
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Hierocles
the name of several Greeks: (1) A professor of Lived in rhetoric at Alabanda, Caria. the 1st century before the Christian era. (2) A writer on the veterinary art, of whose work three chapters have been preserved. (3) A Stoic philosopher, who is said to have flourished about the of Hadrian. (4) A writer of a time work which, under the title of "Traveling Companion," gave a description of the provinces of the Eastern empire. He is supposed to have lived in the 6th century. (5) A persecutor of the Christians, who was president of Bithynia, and afterward governor of Alexandria. Lived in the 4th century. (6) An Alexandrine Neoplatonic philosopher; wrote seven books on Providence and Destiny, and a commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras; the latter of which is extant, also fragments of the former. Lived in the 5th century.
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Hieroglyphic
in ordinary language, written in characters difficult to decipher. Hieroglyphics or hierglyphs are representations of animals, plants, and other more or less material bodies, sculptured on Egyptian temples, obelisks, sarcophagi, etc., and designed for ideographic or other writings. Hieroglyphics are of two kinds: ideographs, others stand for some are syllables or for letters. They are not confined to Egypt; they exist in the adjacent lands and in Mexico.
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Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs were, and are, frequently made use of by the spirits in the so-called "direct" writing, i.e., writing produced without a medium or any physical agent. Direct writing , though frequently produced at sèances, is perhaps most common in poltergeistic outbreaks, when the poltergeist is wont to distribute messages through the house. Thus in the disturbance in the house of Dr. Phelps, Stratford, in 1850-51, hieroglyphs were found on the walls and ceilings, while turnips covered with them were seen to grow from the pattern of the carpet. On this occasion the matter was investigated by Andrew Jackson Davis, who recognised the hieroglyphs as spiritual symbols, which he was inspired to interpret as friendly messages from high spiritual powers.
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