Chapter HIRAVA to HOG-DEER of H by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

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„ “Off the Days of their Feasts and Jubilees, Gladiators were approved and licensed; but feeling afterwards the Evils that attended that Liberty, which was chiefly used in their Hossy Gossy, any private Grudge being then openly revenged: it never was forbid, but it passed into an Edict by the following King, that it should be lawfull to Kill any found with Naked Swords in that Solemnity.”—Ibid. 357.

[1710.—“And they sing around them Saucem Saucem.”—Oriente Conquistado, vol. ii.; Conquista, i. Div. 2, sec. 59.]

1720.—“Under these promising circumstances the time came round for the Mussulman feast called Hossein Jossen … better known as the Mohurrum.”—In Wheeler, ii. 347.

1726.—“In their month Moharram they have a season of mourning for the two brothers Hassan and Hossein. … They name this mourning- time in Arabic Ashur, or the 10 days; but the Hollanders call it Jaksom Baksom.”—Valentijn, Choro. 107.

1763.—“It was the 14th of November, and the festival which commemorates the murder of the brothers Hassein and Jassein happened to fall out at this time.”—Orme, i. 193.

[1773.—“The Moors likewise are not without their feasts and processions … particularly of their Hassan Hassan. …”— Ives, 28.

[1829.—“Them paper boxes are purty looking consarns, but then the folks makes sich a noise, firing and troompeting and shouting Hobson Jobson, Hobson Jobson.” —Oriental Sporting Mag., reprint 1873, i. 129.

[1830.—“The ceremony of Husen Hasen … here passes by almost without notice.” —Raffles, Hist. Java, 2nd ed. ii. 4.]

1832.—“… they kindle fires in these pits every evening during the festival; and the ignorant, old as well as young, amuse themselves in fencing across them with sticks or swords; or only in running and playing round them, calling out, Ya Allee! Ya Allee! … Shah Hussun! Shah Hussun! … Shah Hosein! Shah Hosein! … Doolha! Doolha! (bridegroom! …); Haee dost! Haee dost! (alas, friend! …); Ruheeo! Ruheeo! (Stay! Stay!). Every two of these words are repeated probably a hundred times over as loud as they can bawl out.”—Jaffur Shureef, Qanoon-e-Islam, tr. by Herklots, p. 173.

1883.—“… a long procession … followed and preceded by the volunteer mourners and breast-beaters shouting their cry of Hous-s-e-i- n H-as-san Houss-e-i-n H-a-s-san, and a simultaneous blow is struck vigorously by hundreds of heavy hands on the bare breasts at the last syllable of each name.”—Wills’ Modern Persia, 282.

[1902.—“The Hobson-Jobson.” By Miss A. Goodrich-Freer, in The Nineteenth Century and After, April 1902.]

HODGETT, s. This is used among the English in Turkey and Egypt for a title-deed of land. It is Arabic hujjat, ‘evidence.’ Hojat, perhaps a corruption of the same word, is used in Western India for an account current between landlord and tenant. [Moles-worth, Mahr. Dict., gives “Hujjat, Ar., a Government acknowledgment or receipt.”]

[1871.—“… the Kadee attends, and writes a document (hogget-el-bahr) to attest the fact of the river’s having risen to the height sufficient for the opening of the Canal. …”—Lane, Mod. Egypt., 5th ed. ii. 233.]

[HOG-BEAR, s. Another name for the sloth-bear, Melursus ursinus (Blanford, Mammalia, 201). The word does not appear in the N.E.D. [1895.—“Between the tree-stems he heard a hog-bear digging hard in the moist warm earth.”—R. Kipling, The Jungle Book, 171.]

HOG-DEER, s. The Anglo-Indian popular name of the Axis porcinus, Jerd.; [Cervus porcinus (Blanford, Mammalia, 549)], the Para of Hindustan. The name is nearly the same as that which Cosmas (c. 545) applies to an animal ( [Greek Text] airelafoV) which he draws (see under BABI-ROUSSA), but the two have no other relation. The Hog-deer is abundant in the grassy openings of forests throughout the Gangetic valley and further east. “It runs with its head low, and in a somewhat ungainly manner; hence its popular appellation.”—Jerdon, Mammals, 263.

[1885.—“Two hog-deer were brought forward, very curious-shaped animals that I had never seen before.”—Lady Dufferin, Viceregal Life, 146.]

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