=H. B.=, the initials adopted by Mr. Doyle, father of Richard Doyle, in his _Reform Caricatures_ (1830). =H. H.=, Pen-name of Helen Hunt Jackson, authoress of _Ramona, A Century of Dishonor_, etc. =Hackburn= (_Simon of_), a friend of Hobbie Elliott, farmer at the Heugh-foot.—Sir W. Scott, _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). =Hackum= (_Captain_), a thick-headed bully of Alsatia, once a sergeant in Flanders. He deserted his colors, fled to England, took refuge in Alsatia, and assumed the title of captain.—Shadwell, _Squire of Alsatia_ (1688). =Hadad=, one of the six Wise Men of the East led by the guiding star to Jesus. He left his beloved consort, fairest of the daughters of Bethu´rim. At his decease she shed no tear, yet was her love exceeding that of mortals.—Klopstock, _The Messiah_, v. (1771). =Had´away= (_Jack_), a former neighbor of Nanty Ewart, the smuggler-captain.—Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). =Ha´des= (_2 syl_.), the god of the unseen world; also applied to the grave, or the abode of departed spirits. ⁂ In the _Apostles’ Creed_, the phrase “descended into hell” is equivalent to “descended into hadês.” =Hadgi= (_Abdallah el_), the soldan’s envoy.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Hadoway= (_Mrs._), Lovel’s landlady at Fairport.—Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.). =Hafed=, a gheber or fire-worshipper, in love with Hinda, the emir’s daughter. He was the leader of a band sworn to free their country or die in the attempt. His rendezvous was betrayed, but when the Moslem came to arrest him, he threw himself into the sacred fire, and was burnt to death.—T. Moore, _Lalla Rookh_ (“The Fire-Worshippers,” 1817). =Haf´edal=, the protector of travellers, one of the four gods of the Adites (_2 syl._). =Hafiz=, the _nom de plume_ of Mr. Stott in the _Morning Press_. Byron calls him “grovelling Stott,” and adds, “What would be the sentiment of the Persian Anacreon ... if he could behold his name assumed by one Stott of Dromore, the most impudent and execrable of literary poachers?”—_English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809). =Hafod.= _As big a fool as Jack Hafod._ Jack Hafod was a retainer of Mr. Bartlett, of Castlemore, Worcestershire, and the _ultimus scurrarum_ of Great Britain. He died at the close of the eighteenth century. =Hagan=, son of a mortal and a sea-goblin, the Achillês of German romance. He stabbed Siegfried while drinking from a brook, and laid the body at the door of Kriemhild, that she might suppose he had been killed by assassins. Hagan, having killed Siegfried, then seized the “Nibelung hoard,” and buried it in the Rhine, intending to appropriate it. Kriemhild, after her marriage with Etzel, king of the Huns, invited him to the court of her husband, and cut off his head. He is described as “well grown, strongly built, with long sinewy legs, deep broad chest, hair slightly gray, of terrible visage, and of lordly gait” (stanza 1789).—_The Nibelungen Lied_ (1210).