=Hick´ory= (_Old_), General Andrew Jackson. He was first called “Tough,” then “Tough as Hickory,” and, lastly, “Old Hickory.” Another story is that in 1813, when engaged in war with the Creek Indians, he fell short of supplies, and fed his men on hickory nuts (1767-1845). =Hicks=, short, slight young man ... with an air at once amiable and baddish, whose father sends him on a sea-voyage to cure him of drunkenness.—William Dean Howells, _The Lady of the Aroostook_ (1879). =Hi´erocles= (_4 syl._), the first person who compiled jokes and _bon mots_. After a life-long labor, he got together twenty-one, which he left to the world as his legacy. Hence arose the phrase, _An Hieroc´lean legacy_, no legacy at all, or a legacy of empty promises, or a legacy of no worth. One of his anecdotes is that of a man who wanted to sell his house, and carried about a brick to show as a specimen of it. =Hieron´imo=, the chief character of Thomas Kyd’s drama in two parts, pt. i. being called _Hieronimo_, and pt. ii. _The Spanish Tragedy_, or _Hieronimo is Mad Again_. In the latter play, Horatio, only son of Hieronimo, sitting with Belimpe´ria in an alcove, is murdered by his rival, Balthazar, and the lady’s brother, Lorenzo. The murderers hang the dead body on a tree in the garden, and Hieronimo, aroused by the screams of Belimperia, rushing into the garden, sees the dead body of his son, and goes raving mad (1588). =Higden= (_Mrs. Betty_), an old woman nearly four score, very poor, but hating the union-house more than she feared death. Betty Higden kept a mangle, and “minded young children” at four-pence a week. A poor workhouse lad named Sloppy helped her to turn the mangle. Mrs. Boffin wished to adopt Johnny, Betty’s infant grandchild, but he died in the Children’s Hospital. She was one of those old women, was Mrs. Betty Higden, who, by dint of an indomitable purpose and a strong constitution, fight out many years; an active old woman, with a bright dark eye and a resolute face, yet quite a tender creature, too.—C. Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_, i. 16 (1864). =Higg=, “the son of Snell,” the lame witness at the trial of Rebecca.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Higgen, Prigg, Snapp, and Ferret=, knavish beggars in _The Beggar’s Bush_, a drama by Beaumont and Fletcher (1622). =High and Low Heels=, two factions in Lilliput. So called from the high and low heels of their shoes, badges of the two factions. The high heels (_tories and the high-church party_) were friendly to the ancient constitution of the empire, but the emperor employed the Low-heels (_whigs and low-churchmen_) as his ministers of state.—Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_ (“Lilliput,” 1726).