Single-source entries: H (47)

Honey Guide

a species of cuckoo, Cuculus indicator, which inhabits various parts of Africa, and is celebrated for its curious habit of guiding the natives to the nests of wild bees, by its peculiar cry.

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Honey Springs

a locality in Kansas near Elk Creek, 25 miles S. of Fort Blunt. A sharp action of two hours' duration was fought here, July 17, 1863, between 6,000 Confederate troops under General Cooper, and 3,000 Union men ace. In English law a seigniory of commanded by General Blunt. The former suffered a defeat, leaving 150 men dead on the field, and 77 prisoners, besides suffering a loss of 400 men wounded. National loss 77 men, of whom 17 were killed.

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Honey Stone

or MELLITE, a mineral of remarkable characters and composition, found in connection with brown coal, in several places in Germany. It occurs in square octahedrons, looks like a honey-yellow resin, and may be cut with a knife.

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Honeycomb

the hexagonal cell formed by the hive bee for the reception of honey and for the eggs of the queen bee, and a habitation for the larva of the insect till reaching maturity.

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Honeycomb Moth

in entomology, Galleria cerella, a small moth which does much damage in beehives, piercing the combs and building as it proceeds a single tube, covered with the excrement of the insect, and formed of the wax on which it feeds. Why the bees tolerate such a foe is a mystery.

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Honiton

a town of Devonshire, England, near the left bank of the Otter. The famous Honiton pillow-lace, a manufacture introduced here by Flemish refugees in the middle of the 16th century, is still a specialty of the district.

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Honor

a word of many applications. At cards one of the four highest trumpcards-viz., the king, queen, knave, or HONVÉD several manors, held under one baron or lord-paramount. At the English universities the first or highest class in an examination; examination; as, He went out in "honors." A debt of honor, a debt, as money lost in gambling, which cannot be recovered by legal process. A point of honor, a scruple arising from delicacy of feeling, on which depends the course to be pursued in certain cases. Word of honor, a verbal promise or engagement by which one pledges his honor or good faith. Court of honor, a court or tribunal for hearing and determining questions relating to the laws of honor. Honors of war, a distinction or privilege granted to a beaten enemy, as, to march out of a town, etc.

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Honos

or HONOR, a Roman divinity, whose worship was intimately connected with that of Virtus. HONVÉD (hon-ved'), the name given in Hungary under the earlier kings to the national champions. In the summer of 1848 the term was revived, and applied first to the revolutionary armies, and after the organization of the Hungarian landwehr in 1868 to that body of men.

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Hooch

or HOOGH (höh), Pieter de, one of the best Dutch painters in genre; He was peculiarly sucborn in 1630. cessful in depicting scenes, illuminated by sunlight, of Dutch domestic life. Many of his finest works are in British galleries. He died about 1681.

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Hoofs

the horny tissues which constitute the external part of the feet of certain animals, mostly herbivorous. They may be regarded as homologues of the toe-nails of other animals.

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Hooge

a village near and to the east of Ypres, that saw much fighting during the World War. During 1915 the neighborhood was held mainly by British troops, Keir's Sixth Army Corps, Allenby's Fifth Corps, and the new Fourteenth Light Division. In the summer fighting of of 1915 some of the hardest of the war occurred round the trenches Hooge. The German trenches here were taken by the British June 16, retaken by the Germans July 30, and were again carried at the point of the bayonet by the British, Aug. 9. HÚGLI (hög-lē'), a

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Hooghly

or river of Bengal proper, and commercially the most important. Taking its distinctive name near the town of Santipur, it has a S. course of 64 miles to Calcutta, and a further course of 81 miles in the same direction to the Bay of Bengal. At its mouth the Hooghly has a width of 15 miles.

a city of Bengal proper, capital of a district; on the right or W. bank of the Hooghly river, 25 miles N. of Calcutta. Here is a college for English and Asiatic literature, founded by native munificence. Pop. district, about 1,200,000; city, about 25,000.

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Hook and Eye

a well known fastening for garments. The hook and eye of two pieces was known in the fourteenth century. Hook and eye machines have been invented. Wires are fed through a machine; pieces are cut off and are bent into shape complete at the rate of 200 a minute. The finishing and sewing to cardboard is done also by machinery. After the wire has once been fed, it is not necessary to touch the material with the fingers. Hooks and eyes are sent to market either stitched on cards or in small pasteboard boxes. The factories of the United States alone turn out hooks and eyes to the annual value of half a million dollars at wholesale. See Pins; Buttons

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Hook-bolt

A bolt, one end of which is threaded for a nut, the other turned as a hook, and used for various purposes in the foundry, such as binding portions of loam and dry-sand moulds together, anchoring cores in lower moulds, and suspending them in covering-plates and copes. SEE ANCHOR.

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Hookah

the water tobacco-pipe of Arabs, Turks, Persians, Hindus, and other Orientals. It consists of a bowl for the tobacco, a water-bottle, and a long flexible tube ending in the mouthpiece. A wooden tube leads from the bottom of the head or bowl down into the water in the bottle, and the flexible tube is continued downward by a stiff tube into the space above the water in the bottle. The "hubble-bubble" of India is a similar but simpler water-pipe, made of a cocoanut filled with water, and two short wooden tubes at right angles, one going into the water, the other merely passing inside the top of the shell.

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