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¡nd Lirge, 00 the eall: by Ihe Cambrefis, Pieardy,
and Champaign, 00 Ihe fouth; and by Anois, and
another pdft of Flandm, on Ihe well: Ihe nonh pm
is
fubjee'! 10 Ihe houfe of Aurlria, and tbe foulh pan 10
Franee. !ts capital is Mons.
HAYWARD, Ihe perfoo wbo keeps Ihe eommoo herd
or eattle of a 10IVI1.
HAZARD, a g3me 00 dice, wilhoul lables, is very
properly fo ealled; fioee it fptedily makes aman, or
nndoes him.
l!
is played w'th only two dice; aod as many may
play
al
it as eao lIand rouod Ihe largell round lable.
Two Ihings are ehieny to be obferved,
viz.
main
aod ebloee; the lamr beloogiog to Ihe ealler, and
Ibe former, or maio, to Ihe otber gamellers. There
eao be no m,io Ihrown above nioe, nur under 6ve •
fo Ihal 6ve, fix, feven, eight, and ninc, are Ihe onl y
mains fluog at hazard. Chaoees and oielo are from
four 10 leo: Ihos four is a ehaoee to oioe, 6ve tO
dghr, fil( tO feven, feven to
fix,
eig .1to five; aod
nine aod teo a ehanee tO 6ve, ¡¡x, feven, aod eight :
io nlOrt, foo r, 6ve, fix, feven, eighl, nine, aod ten,
are chaoces to any maio, if any
01
rhefe niek il noto
NolV nieks are eilher IVhen !he ebanee is Ibe fame wilh
Ihe
m~in, a~
6ve and 6ve, or Ihe like; or
fix
aod
Iwelve,
fe.eoand eleven, eight and Iwelve. Here
obferve, Ibal twelve is out lO oine, fe ven, aod uve;
eleveo is out 10 oioe, eigbt, fix, aod hve ' and ames-
aee aod duee·aee, are out 10 aJl maios wbatever.
HAZLE, in botany. See Coa
HUS.
HAUS'EARTH, or HAZLEY SARTH, a kiod
of
red
loam, whieh is faid 10 be an exeellent mixtore with
olher fons of eanh: uoitiog whal is 100 loofe, eooling
what is tOO hot, aod gently eOlertaioing the moillure.
HEAD, in anatomy. See AUTOMY, Part
1.
II
&c.
HEAD'ACH, a mo(l troublefome [eofalioo io Ihe head,
produeed by varioos eaufes. and alleoded with differ–
ent fymptoms, aeeording tO its dilterenl degrees, aod
Ibe place wher. it is femd. See MEDICINE.
Dragon'l
HUD, io allronomy,
&c.
is Ihe afeeoding
node of Ihe moon, or olher plaoet.
HEADFORD, a lown of Galway, io IreJand, Iwelve
miles nonh or,he eity of Galw.y.
HEALTH is a rigbt difpofitioo of the body, aoJ of all
its parts: eoofilling io a due temperature, a righl
eonformalion, juU eoone[tion,
an~
ready and free ex–
ereife of Ihe reveral vilal fun[tioQs.
HEAM, in beafis, is Ihe fame wilh Ihe feeuodines, or
~fter·binh
in womeo.
HEARING. Ihe fenfe whereby \Ve pereeive founds.
The organ or hearing is the ear, and partieularly
Ihe audilory nerve and membrane. See ANAfOto/V,
P· 29S,
This membrane, in Ihe various dcgrees or lenfion
aod relaxation, adapls ilfelf 10 Iho ftveral n,lIures dnd
lIales of fonorous bodics; beeoming leAre for Ihc re–
eeplion of aeute founds, and relatd for Ihe adrniluon
of
gr.vefounds
In !hort, il is n:ndered Icnfe and
relaxed in a Ihourand di/Ftrenl degrtls. aeeordlng lO
lhe various degr:es of aeulenefs or ¡:ravi¡y in roundl.
Sound, Ihen, is io tlf,[t nUlhing uUt a certaio mo·
dulatioo of Ihe air, IVhieh being eollc[ted by Ihe ex–
ternal ear, pan'es through Ihe mealus audilorius, and
bcals upon Ihe membrane of Ihe Iympanum, \Vhieh
mOI'es Ihe bones in the lyAlpanum: Ihefe move Ihe
inlernal air, \Vhieh 6naJly eommunieales Ihe mOlion
10
Ihe audilory nerve, in the labyrinlh and eoehlea; and
aeeording as Ihevibralions are quiek or fiow, Ihe fouod
is eilher acule or grave.
I!
deferves obrtrvalion, Iha! Ihough Ihe air be Ibe
ufual matter of Couads: fo Ihat if a bell be hung in
neuo, it \ViII nOI be heard al all; yel mor! olher ba–
dies, properly diCpofed, will do its offiee, ooty Come
more faintly Ihan olhers. Thus a found may be heard
through waler, or eveo Ihrough eanh, of whieh Ibere–
are various iollanees.
As
Ihe fighl
is
alli(led by Cpeélacles, or other glalJ'es¡
fo rhe
h~ring '
is enlivencd and rendered quiek, by
means of aeoullie infirumenlS; \Vhieh are of various
6gures, but for Ihe moll part bear fome reCemblaoee
to a trumpel, diverging aod growing wider lowards
tbe eXlernal moulh.
HEARSE, among fporlfmen, a hind of!he feeond yeac
of her age.
HEART,.io anatomy. See ANATO!1Y, pi 278.
Force o[ ¡h.
HEART. Several ingenious perfons
hav~,
from time to lime, attempted to make ertimms of Ibe
force of Ihe blood io Ihe hean and arteries: who have
as widely differed from eaeh other, as Ihey have from
lhe trulh, for waol of a fuRieienl oumber of data 10
argue upon. This Cet the \ruly ingeniou! Dr Hales
upon making proper expecimeolS, in'order 10 afeetlain
Ihe force of Ihe blood in the veios and aneries of [¡
veral animals.
lf,
aceording to Dr Keil's ellimale, the lefl Yeolri–
ele of a man's hean Ihrow OUI in eaeh fyllole an ouoee
or 1.638 eubieinehesof blood, and Ihe area of Ihe ori-
6ee of Ihe aorta be =0.4l87 ' Iheo dividing rhe for–
mer by Ihis, Ihe quotÍeuI 3.9 is Ihe lenglh of Ihe ey–
linder of blond, whieh is formed in pallin&- through
the aorta in edeh ry(lole of Ihe ventriele : aod in Ihe
feventy·five pulCes of a minule, a eylinder of 292.5
ioehes io lenglh will paCs ; Ihis is al Ihe rale of
146,
fw in an hour. BUI Ihe fyfiule of Ihe hcan being
performcd io ooe Ibird of Ihis lime, Ihe ,'eloeity of Ihe
blood in Ihal in(lanl \ViII be thnee as mueh,
~iz.
al
Ihe rale of 4386 fw in an hour, or 73 feer in a mi–
nute. And il the ventricle Ihroll's out one ounee in a
pulre, Iben in ¡he fevenly uve pulres of a miuute, Ihe
quanlily of blood lVill be equal 10 4.4
tt;
11 OZ. and,
io thirty-four minules. a q.uantilY equal 10
a
middle.–
fiz~d
man,
viz.
lS8
1
t;.
will pafs through Ihe heart,
Bur if, wilh Dr Harvey and Dr Lo\Ver,
\\'0
ruppofe
I\VO
ounees of
bl~od,
Ihal is, 3.276 eubie ioches, to be
Ihruwn out al eaeh r¡lIole of the ventrtele. Ihen Ihe
veloeilY of Ihe bfood In cnlering Ihe orifiee of Ihe
aorta, \\'ill be double Ihe fOt
ma,
viz.
al the rale of
146 feel in
a
minute, and aquantilY of blood eqtlal to
Ihe wtight. of a man's bod¡ \ViII pars in half Ihe lime,
lUZ.
17
minu:es.
lf
\\'c
[¡'1,poC" what is probable, thal lhe blood 'will
rife
7+t
fcel high io a lube
rL~cd
10 Ihe carolide ar–
lery