Chapter Hobby-horse to Holland in England of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

which was impossible by such a mild-spirited woman as his wife was [his wife was a desperate termagant].—Dr. Arbuthnot: History of John Bull, v. (1712).

Hodeirah , husband of Zeinab and father of Thalaba. He died while Thalaba was a mere lad.—Southey: Thalaba the Destroyer, i. (1797).

Hodeken [i.e. little hat], a German kobold or domestic fairy, noted for his little felt hat.

Hoder, the Scandinavian god of darkness, typical of night. He is called the blind old god. Balder is the god of light, typical of day. According to fable, Höder killed Balder with an arrow made of mistletoe, but the gods restored him to life again.

Höder, the blind old god,
Whose feet are shod with silence.
   —Longfellow: Tegner’s Death,

Hodge, Gammer Gurton’s goodman, whose breeches she was repairing when she lost her needle.—Mr. S. Master of Arts: Gammer Gurton’s Needle (1551).

Mr. S. is said to be J. Still, afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells, but in 1551 he was only eight years old.

Hodges (John), one of Waverley’s servants.—Sir W. Scott: Waverley (time, George II.).

Hodges (Joe), landlord of Bertram, by the lake near Merwyn Hall.—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

Hodgeson (Gaffer), a puritan.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Hoel (2syl.), king of the Armorican Britons, and nephew of king Arthur. Hoel sent an army of 15,000 men to assist his uncle against the Saxons (501). In 509, being driven from his kingdom by Clovis, he took refuge in England; but in 513 he recovered his throne, and died in 545.

[Arthur], calling to his aid
His kinsman Howel, brought from Brittany the less,
Their armies they unite…[and conquer the Saxons at Lincoln].
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, iv. (1612).

Hoel, son of prince Hoel an d Llaian. Prince Hoel was slain in battle by his half-brother David king of North Wales; and Llaian, with her son, followed the fortunes of prince Madoc, who migrated to North America. Young Hoel was kidnapped by Ocellopan, an Aztec, and carried to Aztlan for a propitiatory sacrifice to the Aztecan gods. He was confined in a cavern without food; but Coatel, a young Aztecan wife, took pity on him, visited him, supplied him with food, and assisted Madoc to release him.—Southey: Madoc (1805).

Hœrnescar, a German mode of punishment, which consisted in carrying a dog on one’s shoulders for a certain number of miles.

Plusieurs comtes accusés de malversation, de la peine humiliante du hœrnescar, peine consistant à faire porter un chien pendant plusieurs milles sur les épaules du condamné.—Cocheris: L’Empire d Allemagne.

Hogarth (William), called “The Juvenal of Painters” (1695–1764).

The Scottish Hogarth, David Allan (1744–1796).

The Hogarth of Novelists, Henry Fielding (1707–1754).

Hog Lane, Whitechapel, London; afterwards called “Petticoat Lane,” and now “Middlesex Street.”